History
Uzen-Yamabe Station opened on 20 July 1921 on what is today the JR East Aterazawa Line, in the town of Yamanobe in Higashimurayama District, Yamagata Prefecture. Yamanobe is a town of roughly 13,000 people in the slightly south-eastern part of Yamagata Prefecture, adjacent to the prefectural capital across the Su River. Its own article describes it as known for the knit and textile industries and for "Yamabe milk", and as home to the only surviving Ankokuji temple of the old Dewa Province. The current town was formed on 1 October 1954 by the merger of the former Yamanobe-machi with the villages of Ōtera, Naka, Sakuyazawa and Sagami.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The Yamanobe article notes that the town centre at the north-east end of the municipality, where Uzen-Yamabe Station and the town hall stand, sits on the south-west edge of the Yamagata Basin — and that Yamanobe is the site of the 1600 Battle of Hasedō, with the Yamanobe Castle ruins surviving above the rail line.