History
Yuza Station opened on 5 December 1919 as a general station of the Japanese Government Railways on what became the Uetsu Main Line, in the town of Yuza, Yamagata. Freight handling ceased on 20 September 1978, and on 19 March 1984 the station shifted from direct operation to a contracted-operator basis. The station joined JR East at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. A new station building, integrated with the "Yuza Motomachi Regional Exchange Centre," opened on 1 March 2008. On 1 April 2010 management was transferred from Kisakata to Ugo-Honjō. The Inaho limited express and the seasonal Kairi rapid both call here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Yuza's 2008 station building is jointly occupied by the town's tourism association, the silver-talent centre and the local commerce chamber, integrating the station into a "regional exchange" facility rather than a stand-alone railway building.