Koi-Yamagata

Weekday departures: 22/day · Sat & holiday departures: 22/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:48 / 21:37

Busiest hour: 18:00–19:00 (3)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Chizu Line: Chizu ⇄ Yamasato

Koi-Yamagata Station opened on 1994-12-03 with the inauguration of the Chizu Express Chizu Line, a 56.1 km third-sector route from Kamigōri to Chizu. The unstaffed two-platform station, 50.0 km from Kamigōri, was given an unusual second life on 2013-06-09: the operator played on koi, the Japanese word for love, by repainting the shelters and fencing in vivid pink and replacing the platform signage with heart-shaped equivalents. Despite the rebranding, ridership remained minimal — fiscal-2018 figures averaged five passengers per day.

The platform shelters and station signs were repainted vivid pink and reshaped as hearts in 2013 to play on the word koi ("love") in the station name.