History
Ringō Station opened on 26 October 1913 as the terminus of the Nagai Light Railway when the line first reached the village from Akayu. Just over a year later, on 15 November 1914, the line was extended to Nagai and Ringō became an intermediate station. The station passed to JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, then transferred to the third-sector Yamagata Railway on 25 October 1988 with the conversion of the line to the Flower Nagai Line. A small log-cabin-style waiting building, built by Nan'yō City, replaced the original wooden station building in July 1999.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A subtle reminder of Ringō's original status as a terminus is that the line still curves just before reaching the platform — the legacy of the second platform track that was removed and back-filled when the station became an intermediate stop.