Amarume

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Amarume Station opened on 20 September 1914 as the terminus of the state-run Sakata Line, extended from Karikawa, in what is now Shōnai, Yamagata Prefecture. The line reached Sakata on 24 December 1914, three months later, making Amarume a through station; it became a junction on 21 September 1918 when the Rikuu West Line opened onward from the station to Tsuruoka, and a line reorganisation on 20 April 1924 made it a station of both the Uetsu Main Line and the Rikuu West Line. The current station building entered service on 22 December 1964, with footbridge rebuilding completed in March 1965. On 2 October 1978 it began to receive Limited Express "Inaho" trains. JR East took over at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and operations were contracted out from 1 April 2003. Rikuu West Line through trains were suspended on 14 May 2022 for tunnel construction and resumed on 16 January 2026.

Platform 4 was used as a location in the 2008 film Departures (Okuribito); a sticker once marked the spot where the character Mika (played by Ryōko Hirosue) stood, though it has since been removed.