History
Kita-Amarume Station was originally established as the Kita-Amarume Signal in 1943; the signal post was closed in 1949 and reopened in January 1958. Construction of a full station began on 1963-12-01 and the station opened on 1964-02-01 on the Uetsu Main Line in what is now Shōnai, Yamagata Prefecture, unstaffed from the outset. It passed to JR East at the 1987-04-01 privatisation. On 2005-12-25, a Uetsu Main Line train was blown off the tracks in severe weather near here, killing five passengers and injuring thirty-three. The station has two opposed side platforms connected by an in-station level crossing in a rural rice-paddy setting and is managed remotely from Sakata Station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
A memorial to the victims of the 2005 Uetsu Main Line derailment stands near the station, in the open paddy landscape where the accident occurred.