History
Midaregawa Station opened on 1 December 1954 on the Ōu Main Line, 103.4 km from the line's origin at Fukushima. For decades after opening, most loco-hauled passenger trains and some railcars passed through without stopping; that changed on 4 December 1999 with the Yamagata Shinkansen extension to Shinjō, when all local trains began calling at the station. The station passed to JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. Suica became usable on 16 March 2024. The station is a single-platform unstaffed halt managed by Yamagata Station, with a waiting room containing a boarding-certificate machine and a simple Suica reader.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.