History
Tsuya Station opened on 6 September 1914 as part of the Sakata Line (now the Rikuu West Line), in the town of Tozawa, Yamagata. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1970, and parcel handling on 1 February 1984, when the station became unstaffed under a simplified-contracted arrangement managed by the local Tozawa agricultural cooperative. It joined East Japan Railway Company (JR East) on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways, and lost its contracted operator on 31 March 2004. The current shelter-style station building dates from 29 March 2009. Rail service was suspended on 14 May 2022 for tunnel construction and resumed on 16 January 2026.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
On 4 March 1964 a semi-express "Gassan" bound for Sakata derailed inside Tsuya Station after colliding with a cow that had wandered onto the tracks.