Ringo

Weekday departures: 16/day · Sat & holiday departures: 16/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:41 / 21:08

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (2)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 5 May 2026.

• Yamagata Railway Flower Nagai Line: Orihata ⇄ Nishi-Otsuka

Ringō Station opened on 26 October 1913 as the terminus of the Nagai Light Railway when the line first reached the village from Akayu. Just over a year later, on 15 November 1914, the line was extended to Nagai and Ringō became an intermediate station. The station passed to JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, then transferred to the third-sector Yamagata Railway on 25 October 1988 with the conversion of the line to the Flower Nagai Line. A small log-cabin-style waiting building, built by Nan'yō City, replaced the earlier station building — the standard Nagai Line design — in July 1999.

A subtle reminder of Ringō's original status as a terminus is that the line still curves just before reaching the platform. The station once had an island platform serving two tracks; the track on the station-building side was later removed and its bed filled in with earth, and the curve survives as the legacy of that layout.