History
Yamanome Station opened on 8 April 1928 on the Tōhoku Main Line in what is now Ichinoseki, Iwate. Freight handling ended on 1 May 1980 and parcel handling on 1 February 1983, when the station became unstaffed; ticket and gate duties were nonetheless continued under dispatch from Ichinoseki until about 1991. The station joined JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. Construction of a new station building began in February 2011, was briefly interrupted by the Tōhoku earthquake the following month, and entered service in late May 2011. Automated ticket-vending machines were withdrawn on 15 December 2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Despite sitting between two Suica-compatible neighbours — Ichinoseki and Hiraizumi — Yamanome itself does not accept Suica or other IC cards, and southbound passengers buy their tickets from the conductor after the train leaves Hiraizumi.