Kita-Amarume

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Kita-Amarume Station was originally established as the Kita-Amarume Signal in 1943; the signal post was closed in 1949 and reopened in January 1958. Construction of a full station began on 1 December 1963 and the station opened on 1 February 1964 on the Uetsu Main Line in what is now Shōnai, Yamagata Prefecture, unstaffed from the outset. It passed to JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. On 25 December 2005, a Uetsu Main Line train derailed in bad weather near the station, killing five people and injuring thirty-three. The station has two opposed side platforms connected by an in-station level crossing in a rural rice-paddy setting and is managed remotely from Sakata Station.

A memorial to the victims of the 2005 Uetsu Main Line derailment stands near the station, in the open paddy landscape where the accident occurred.