Ugo-Yotsuya

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Ugo-Yotsuya Station opened on 30 July 1921 as a station on the Ministry of Railways' Obonai Light Railway, serving Yotsuya village in Akita Prefecture. The line was renamed the Obonai Line in 1922 and reorganised into the Tazawako Line on 20 October 1966. Parcel service ended in December 1981 and the station was first unstaffed before being simply contracted in April 1982, around the time when a shipping-container-derived structure replaced the earlier station building. Privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 brought the station into JR East, and it became fully unstaffed again on 1 April 2007. Akita Shinkansen trains pass through without stopping: the station is laid out as a single-through arrangement with Platform 2's track as the main line, so shinkansen services normally run through on Platform 2 while local trains use Platform 1 on the station-building side.

Around its 1982 transition to simple-contract operation the original building was replaced by a station structure converted from a shipping container.