Yonezawa Station

Yonezawa Station 米沢駅
Yonezawa Station, August 2012
Location	1-43, Ekimae 1-chome, Yonezawa, Yamagata （山形県米沢市駅前一丁目1-43） Japan
Coordinates	37°54′35″N 140°07′42″E / 37.909636°N 140.128208°E / 37.909636; 140.128208Coordinates: 37°54′35″N 140°07′42″E / 37.909636°N 140.128208°E / 37.909636; 140.128208
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Yamagata Shinkansen Ōu Main Line Yonesaka Line
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	1899
Traffic

Passengers (FY 2012)	2,518 daily

Yonezawa Station (米沢駅, Yonezawa-eki) is a railway station in Yonezawa, Yamagata, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Yonezawa Station is served by the Ōu Main Line and the Yamagata Shinkansen, and is located 40.1 rail kilometers from the terminus of both lines at Fukushima Station. It is also a terminal station for the Yonesaka Line.

Station layout

Yonezawa Station is an elevated station with one partial bay platform used for tracks 1, 4 and 5 and one island platform, serving tracks 2 and 3. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

1	■ Yamagata Shinkansen	for Yamagata, Shinjō For Fukushima, Utsunomiya, Ōmiya, and Tokyo
1	■ Yamagata Line	for Yamagata and Shinjō
2	■ Yamagata Shinkansen	for Yamagata and Shinjō For Fukushima, Ōmiya, Utsunomiya, and Tokyo
2	■ Yamagata Line	for Akayu and Yamagata For Fukushima
3	■ Yamagata Line	for Akayu and Yamagata For Fukushima

4,5

■ Yonesaka Line

for Imaizumi, Oguni and Sakamachi

Adjacent stations

«	Service
Yamagata Shinkansen
Fukushima		Takahata
Ōu Main Line
Sekine	Local	Oitama
Yonesaka Line
Terminus	Local	Minami-Yonezawa

History

Yonezawa Station opened on 15 May 1899. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987. The Yamagata Shinkansen began operations from 1 July 1992. A new station building was completed in November 1993.

Surrounding area

National Route 13
National Route 121
Yonezawa City Hall
Yonezawa Post Office
Uesugi Shrine
Yonezawa Women's Junior College

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yonezawa Station.

JR East Station information (Japanese)

Stations of the Yamagata Shinkansen

Fukushima Yonezawa Takahata Akayu Kaminoyama-Onsen Yamagata Tendō Sakurambo-Higashine Murayama Ōishida Shinjō For stations between Tokyo and Fukushima, see Tōhoku Shinkansen

Stations of the Ōu Main Line

Fukushima to Shinjō (Yamagata Line)	Fukushima Sasakino Niwasaka Akaiwa Itaya Tōge Ōsawa Sekine Yonezawa Oitama Takahata Akayu Nakagawa Uzen-Nakayama Kaminoyama-Onsen Mokichi Kinenkan-mae Zaō Yamagata Kita-Yamagata Uzen-Chitose Minami-Dewa Urushiyama Takatama Tendō-Minami Tendō Midaregawa Jimmachi Sakurambo-Higashine Higashine Murayama Sodesaki Ōishida Kita-Ōishida Ashisawa Funagata Shinjō

Shinjō to Ōmagari	Shinjō Izumita Uzen-Toyosato Mamurogawa Kamabuchi Ōtaki Nozoki Innai Yokobori Mitsuseki Kami-Yuzawa Yuzawa Shimo-Yuzawa Jūmonji Daigo Yanagita Yokote Gosannen Iizume Ōmagari

Ōmagari to Aomori (formerly Ōu North Line)	Ōmagari Jingūji Kawarino Mineyoshikawa Ugo-Sakai Ōbarino Wada Yotsugoya Akita Tsushizaki Kami-Iijima Oiwake Ōkubo Ugo-Iizuka Ikawa-Sakura Hachirōgata Koikawa Kado Moritake Kita-Kanaoka Higashi-Noshiro Tsurugata Tomine Futatsui Maeyama Takanosu Nukazawa Hayaguchi Shimokawazoi Ōdate Shirasawa Jimba Tsugaru-Yunosawa Ikarigaseki Nagamine Ōwani-Onsen Ishikawa Hirosaki Naijōshi Kawabe Kita-Tokiwa Namioka Daishaka Tsurugasaka Tsugaru-Shinjō Shin-Aomori Aomori

Stations of the Yonesaka Line

Yonezawa Minami-Yonezawa Nishi-Yonezawa Narushima Chūgun Uzen-Komatsu Inukawa Imaizumi Hagyū Uzen-Tsubaki Tenoko Uzen-Numazawa Isaryō Uzen-Matsuoka Oguni Echigo-Kanamaru Echigo-Katakai Echigo-Shimoseki Echigo-Ōshima Sakamachi

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