History
Yuzawa Station opened on 5 July 1905 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways Ōu South Line in the city of Yuzawa, Akita Prefecture. On 10 August 1928 the privately owned Ogachi Railway (later renamed Ugo Railway on 1 May 1944) began operations from the station; that connecting line ceased operations on 1 April 1973. After the JGR became the Japan National Railways following World War II, the station was absorbed into the East Japan Railway Company network upon the privatisation of the JNR on 1 April 1987. The station has been operated under contract (gyōmu-itaku) since 1 April 2021, with the Midori no Madoguchi closing on 28 February 2022; it lies 210.4 kilometres along the line from its terminus at Fukushima Station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
A private connecting railway — the Ogachi (later Ugo) Railroad — ran from Yuzawa from 1928 until it ceased operations on 1 April 1973.