Tateyama (Yamagata)

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Tateyama Station opened on 17 October 1933 as a station of what was then the Sen'zan West Line, in what is now Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture; it is operated today by JR East on the Senzan Line. Freight service was discontinued and the station became unstaffed on 14 March 1985, and the station building was rebuilt in 1999. Yamagata City is the prefectural capital and largest city by population in Yamagata Prefecture and a designated Core City; it developed as the castle town of Yamagata Castle (Kajō) and is the seat of the Murayama Comprehensive Branch Office, which administers the Murayama region. The Tateyama district lies in the eastern part of Yamagata City along the Senzan Line, on the route toward Sendai.

In Yamagata City, the legend of Akoya-hime is handed down at Mt. Chitose, the hill that stands close to the prefectural government building in the eastern part of the city's built-up area — one of the old folk tales attached to the city's hills. Further east the Ou Mountains rise, forming the prefectural border with Miyagi.