Uzen-Yamabe

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Uzen-Yamabe Station opened on 20 July 1921 on what is today the JR East Aterazawa Line, in the town of Yamanobe in Higashimurayama District, Yamagata Prefecture. Yamanobe is a town of roughly 13,000 people in the slightly south-eastern part of Yamagata Prefecture, adjacent to the prefectural capital across the Su River. The town is known for the knit and textile industries and for "Yamabe milk", and is home to the only surviving Ankokuji temple of the old Dewa Province. The current town was formed on 1 October 1954 by the merger of the former Yamanobe-machi with the villages of Ōtera, Naka, Sakuyazawa and Sagami.

In Yamanobe, the town centre at the north-east end of the municipality, where Uzen-Yamabe Station and the town hall stand, sits on the south-west edge of the Yamagata Basin — and the ruins of Yamanobe Castle remain in the town, one of the battlefields of the Keichō Dewa Campaign (the Battle of Hasedō) of 1600.