Yamagata

Known weekday departures: 26/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 29/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:25 / 22:00

Busiest hour in the available data: 9:00–10:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Ou Line: no timetable data

• Ou Line: Tendo ⇄ Kaminoyama-Onsen

Yamagata Station opened on 11 April 1901 as the terminus of the Ōu South Line, extended that day from Kaminoyama, and was constructed inside the third bailey of the former Yamagata Castle. The line was given the name Ōu Main Line on 12 October 1909. A second station building was completed in 1916, replaced in 1967 by an approximately 500-million-yen "people's station" combined with the Yamagata Station Department Store. The Yamagata Shinkansen began service on 1 July 1992 with the present bridge-style station, and was extended north to Shinjō on 4 December 1999. JR East took over from Japanese National Railways at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Suica acceptance arrived on 1 April 2014.