Yonezawa

Known weekday departures: 38/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 39/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 7:02 / 22:50

Busiest hour in the available data: 11:00–12:00 (4)

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
• JR Yonesaka Line: no timetable data

• Ou Line: Takahata ⇄ Fukushima (Fukushima)

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 Yonezawa as a stop; every Tsubasa service has called there since 1 October 2003. The current station building, modelled on the main building of Yonezawa Higher Industrial School, was completed on 1 July 1993 and helped earn the station Top-100 Tōhoku status in 2002.

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.