History
Chūgun Station opened on 28 September 1926 with the inaugural Yonezawa-Imaizumi section of the Yonesaka Line, serving the town of Kawanishi in southern Yamagata. Freight handling ended on 10 June 1961, the station became an outsourced agency on 1 April 1965, and it was destaffed on 20 March 1982 when luggage handling ceased. The station was absorbed into JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, and the current station building was completed on 17 March 2001. Eki-net QChiké ticketless boarding launched on 1 October 2024. The station name preserves a settlement absorbed into modern Kawanishi.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's name preserves the old Chūgun settlement, absorbed into the town of Kawanishi by twentieth-century mergers.