History
Uzen-Takamatsu Station opened on 23 April 1922 on the Aterazawa Line, 19.3 km from the line's origin at Kita-Yamagata. From 1926 to 1974 it was also served by the now-defunct Sanzan Line of the Yamagata Railway, and during that period had two opposed side platforms plus a bay platform for the branch. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station came under JR East. The current building, designed to evoke the nearby Jion-ji temple — a designated National Important Cultural Property — was completed on 28 February 2010, replacing a wooden structure that had stood since 1940. The station is now a single-platform unstaffed halt.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.