Yokote Station

Yokote Station 横手駅
Yokote Station in 2011
Location	5-1 Ekimae-chō, Yokote, Akita （秋田県横手市駅前町5-1） Japan
Coordinates	39°18′36.8″N 140°33′38″E / 39.310222°N 140.56056°E / 39.310222; 140.56056Coordinates: 39°18′36.8″N 140°33′38″E / 39.310222°N 140.56056°E / 39.310222; 140.56056
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Ōu Main Line Kitakami Line
Connections	Bus stop
History
Opened	1905
Traffic

Passengers (FY2010)	1,427 daily

Yokote Station (横手駅, Yokote-eki) is a railway station in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Yokote Station is served by both the Kitakami Line and the Ōu Main Line. It is a terminal station for the Kitakami Line and is located 61.1 km from the opposing terminus of the line at Kitakami Station. It is located 228.3 km from the terminus of the Ōu Main Line at Fukushima Station.

Station layout

Yokote Station has a single island platform and two opposed side platforms serving four tracks, although Platform 4 is not normally in use. The platforms are connected by an overpass.

Platforms

1	■ Kitakami Line	for Kitakami
2	■ Ōu Main Line	for Yuzawa and Shinjō
3	■ Ōu Main Line	for Ōmagari and Akita
4	■ None	Not normally used

Adjacent stations

«	Service	»
Ōu Main Line
Jūmonji	Rapid (Only to Akita, 1 train per day)		Ōmagari
Yanagita	Local	Gosannen
Kitakami Line
Yabitsu	Local	Terminus

History

Yokote Station opened on June 15, 1905 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), serving the town of Yokote, Akita. The Yokosho Railway began operations to the station on August 18, 1918 and the predecessor to the Kitakami line began operations from October 10, 1920. A new station building was completed in November 1924, but was destroyed in American air raids on July 15 and August 5, 1945. The JGR became the Japanese National Railways (JNR) after World War II. The Yokosho Line ceased operations on April 20, 1971. A new station building was completed in April 1978. All freight operations were discontinued from November 1986. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987. A new station building was opened in October 2011.

Surrounding area

East side

Yokote City Office

West side

National Route 13 (Yokote Bypass)
Hiraka General Hospital

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yokote Station.

JR East Station information (Japanese)

Stations of the Kitakami Line

Kitakami Yanagihara Ezuriko Fujine Tatekawame Yokokawame Iwasawa Wakasennin Yudakinshūko Hottoyuda Yudakōgen Kurosawa Komatsukawa Hiraishi Ainono Yabitsu Yokote

Stations of the Ōu Main Line

Fukushima to Shinjō (Yamagata Line)	Fukushima Sasakino Niwasaka Akaiwa Itaya Tōge Ōsawa Sekine Yonezawa Oitama Takahata Akayu Nakagawa Uzen-Nakayama Kaminoyama-Onsen Mokichi Kinenkan-mae Zaō Yamagata Kita-Yamagata Uzen-Chitose Minami-Dewa Urushiyama Takatama Tendō-Minami Tendō Midaregawa Jimmachi Sakurambo-Higashine Higashine Murayama Sodesaki Ōishida Kita-Ōishida Ashisawa Funagata Shinjō

Shinjō to Ōmagari	Shinjō Izumita Uzen-Toyosato Mamurogawa Kamabuchi Ōtaki Nozoki Innai Yokobori Mitsuseki Kami-Yuzawa Yuzawa Shimo-Yuzawa Jūmonji Daigo Yanagita Yokote Gosannen Iizume Ōmagari

Ōmagari to Aomori (formerly Ōu North Line)	Ōmagari Jingūji Kawarino Mineyoshikawa Ugo-Sakai Ōbarino Wada Yotsugoya Akita Tsushizaki Kami-Iijima Oiwake Ōkubo Ugo-Iizuka Ikawa-Sakura Hachirōgata Koikawa Kado Moritake Kita-Kanaoka Higashi-Noshiro Tsurugata Tomine Futatsui Maeyama Takanosu Nukazawa Hayaguchi Shimokawazoi Ōdate Shirasawa Jimba Tsugaru-Yunosawa Ikarigaseki Nagamine Ōwani-Onsen Ishikawa Hirosaki Naijōshi Kawabe Kita-Tokiwa Namioka Daishaka Tsurugasaka Tsugaru-Shinjō Shin-Aomori Aomori

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