Uzen-Komatsu

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Uzen-Komatsu Station opened on 28 September 1926, the day the JR East (then JNR) Yonesaka Line section between Yonezawa and Imaizumi was inaugurated, in the town of Kawanishi in Higashiokitama District, Yamagata Prefecture. Kawanishi is a town of about 13,000 people in the southern part of Yamagata Prefecture, sitting in roughly the centre of the Okitama Basin. Its name comes from the area west of the Omonogawa — a tributary of the Mogami River that flows past the eastern side of Takahata — having been called "Kawanishi". The present town was formed on 1 January 1955 from the merger of Tamaniwa, Ōtsuka, Inukawa, Komatsu and Nakagōri municipalities, with Kichijima incorporated the following month.

The writer Inoue Hisashi was born in Kawanishi, and in 1878 the English traveller Isabella Bird lodged in Komatsu, at the residence of the village headman Kaneko Jūsanemon, where roughly half the townspeople reportedly gathered to see the foreign visitor.