Uzen-Yamabe Station

Uzen-Yamabe Station (羽前山辺駅) is a railway station located in the town of Yamanobe, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Uzen-Yamabe Station is served by the Aterazawa Line and is located 6.5 km from the start of the line at Kita-Yamagata, and 17.8 km from Aterazawa. The preceding station of Higashi-Kanai is 3.4 km away and the following station of Uzen-Kanezawa is 3 km away.

Station layout
The station has a single island platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is unattended and has no accessibility features.

History
Uzen-Yamabe Station began operation on July 20, 1921. A new station building was completed in November 1940. With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of the East Japan Railway Company.

In September 2023, JR-East announced that they were going to rebuild the 87 year old station building from 1940. Construction started in November 2023 and is expected to finish in Spring of 2024.

The Station will start accepting Suica Cards in Spring 2024, with the extension of the Sendai area Suica zone to Yamagata Prefecture.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2017, the station was used by an average of 797 passengers daily. Since 2018, Yamagata Prefecture has not reported the passenger numbers for Uzen-Kanezawa Station.

Below is table containing the passenger statistics from the year 2000 to the year 2017:

Surrounding area

 * Yamanobe Town Hall
 * Yamanobe High School
 * Yamanobe Elementary School
 * Yamanobe Onsen
 * Su River
 * Su River

Bus

 * Yamanobe municipal Bus