History
Yonezawa Station opened on 15 May 1899 as the terminus of the government-built Ōu South Line. When the line was extended to Yamagata on 21 April 1900 it became an intermediate stop, and the line was renamed the Ōu Main Line on 12 October 1909. The Yonesaka Line opened from here to Imaizumi on 28 September 1926. JR East took over operations on 1 April 1987, and on 1 July 1992 the Yamagata Shinkansen Fukushima–Yamagata segment opened with all Tsubasa services stopping at Yonezawa. The current station building, modelled on the original main building of Yonezawa Higher Industrial School, was completed on 1 July 1993 and helped earn the station Top-100 Tōhoku status in 2002.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
A signature ekiben sold here is gyukakuni bento, beef in a cow's-head-shaped container whose lid, when removed, plays the regional folk tune Hanagasa Ondo.