Higashi-Sakata

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Higashi-Sakata Station began life on 31 March 1944 as the Higashi-Sakata Signal on the Uetsu Main Line in what is now Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture. It was promoted to a full passenger station on 25 December 1958, with a concrete-block single-storey building put up at the same time. Parcel handling ended and the station became unattended on 1 September 1972. It transferred to JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of the Japanese National Railways. The 2019 Yamagata earthquake damaged the platforms, and the suspension of Rikuu West Line through services on 14 May 2022 affected stopping patterns until services resumed on 16 January 2026. The station sits among paddy fields and has very few daily users.