History
Tsuruoka Station first opened on 21 September 1918 as a temporary Rikū-saisen terminus east of the Aka-gawa in Fujishima-machi. After the Uchikawa bridge opened on 6 July 1919, the station moved 1.8 km west to its present site, and on 5 December the line extended further to Uzen-Ōyama. Renumbered to the Uetsu Line in 1924 and the Uetsu Main Line in November 1925 with the Akatani branch's opening, the station also hosted the Shōnai Electric Railway Yunohama Line from December 1929 until that interurban closed on 1 April 1975. The present station building dates from December 1978, and JR East took over on 1 April 1987.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
From 2012 a plaster prototype of the loyal Akita dog Hachikō was displayed inside Tsuruoka Station each year between April and February, on loan from Tsuruoka City's Fujishima Office.