History
Nezugaseki Station is on JR East's Uetsu Main Line in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, at the boundary with Niigata Prefecture. It opened on 23 November 1923 as a station of the Rikuu West Line and became a station of the Uetsu Main Line on 20 November 1925 with the opening of the Akadani Line branch. The yacht-shaped 1986 station building reflects the nearby marina; the station was unstaffed from 1 April 2004 but an honorary station-master (a JR East retiree) has been appointed since 1 May 2012 as a community volunteer. Some Murakami- and Sakata-bound trains terminate here, including the first and last services of the day, which lay up overnight on platform 2.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Although Nezugaseki Station is in Yamagata, the points at the Niitsu end of its yard cross the prefectural boundary into Murakami in Niigata.