History
Mokichi-Kinenkan-mae Station, on the Ōu Main Line in the city of Kaminoyama, Yamagata Prefecture, opened on 1952-12-05 as Kita-Kaminoyama Station (北上ノ山駅). It was absorbed into the JR East network upon the 1987 privatization of Japanese National Railways, and on 1992-07-01 it was renamed Mokichi-Kinenkan-mae after the nearby Saitō Mokichi Memorial Museum dedicated to the tanka poet Saitō Mokichi. The station has two opposed side platforms connected by a level crossing, is unstaffed, and sits 77.8 rail kilometres from the line's southern terminus at Fukushima Station, surrounded by rice paddies and small rural settlements.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station was renamed in 1992 to advertise the Saitō Mokichi Memorial Museum — one of relatively few JR stations whose name doubles as direct signage for a literary museum.