History
Uzen-Zennami Station opened on 1 September 1966 on the Rikuu West Line in the city of Shinjō, Yamagata, intended primarily as the nearest stop to a local industrial estate. The unstaffed halt is built on an embankment, with a small platform shelter and no station building. It transferred to East Japan Railway Company (JR East) on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways. Rail operations were suspended on 14 May 2022 while the Takaya tunnel was built nearby. When service resumed on 16 January 2026, low patronage led JR East to keep the station closed and all trains now pass through.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the Rikuu West Line resumed service in January 2026 after a multi-year suspension, every train now passes through Uzen-Zennami without stopping — the station remains officially out of service.