Akayu

Weekday departures: 40/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 41/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:47 / 23:03

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 5 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

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 complete: Yamagata Railway Flower Nagai Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Ou Line: no timetable data

• Yamagata Railway Flower Nagai Line: Nanyo-Shiyakusho
• Ou Line: Kaminoyama-Onsen ⇄ Takahata

Akayu Station opened on 21 April 1900 as the temporary terminus of the government-built Ōu South Line extending north from Yonezawa. On 15 February 1901 the line was pushed further north to Kaminoyama and the station became an intermediate stop, and from October 1909 it formed part of the Ōu Main Line. The Nagai Light Railway connected here on 26 October 1913, transferring to the third-sector Yamagata Railway as the Flower Nagai Line on 25 October 1988. JR East took over on 1 April 1987. A new east-side building designed by Edward Suzuki, themed on a paraglider, was completed on 14 July 1993 and won several design awards. The Yamagata Shinkansen has stopped here since 1 July 1992.

The east-side station building, modelled on a paraglider canopy, has no internal columns — its arched roof is carried entirely by external supports — and won a MITI Good Design Award in 1995.