Higashi-Yamanashi

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Higashi-Yamanashi Station opened on 5 February 1957 as a passenger-only station on the Japanese National Railways (JNR) Chūō Main Line in the city of Yamanashi, Yamanashi Prefecture. It was a petition station built at the request of local residents who fully funded its 3.7 million yen construction cost; at opening only eight up trains and eight down trains stopped daily. The station became unstaffed on 1 October 1970. With the dissolution and privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, it came under the control of JR East. Suica IC card service began on 16 October 2004, when the station was also incorporated into the Tokyo Suburban Area zone; the unstaffed station has no automatic ticket gates, only simple Suica card readers at each platform entrance. Its station number is CO 38.

Because Higashi-Yamanashi's platforms can only accommodate six-car trains, regular trains in JNR-era eight-car formations passed through without stopping until privatization in 1987, when all local trains began stopping at the station.