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Amarume Station (余目駅, Amarume-eki) is a junction railway station in the town of Shōnai, Yamagata, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
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 Station building, July 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Sawada Amarume, Shōnai-machi, Higashitagawa-gun, Yamagata-ken 999-7781 Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°50′40″N 139°54′41″E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | .svg){kind=logo} JR East | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Distance | 154.7 kilometers from Niitsu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side + 2 island platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 20 September 1914 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FY2018 | 503 daily | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Amarume Station is served by the Rikuu West Line and the Uetsu Main Line. The station is located 154.7 rail kilometers from the starting point of the Uetsu Main Line at Niitsu Station, and is the official terminus of the 42.0 kilometer Rikuu West Line, although most trains continue on to Sakata Station.
Amarume Station has one side platform next to the station building and two island platforms connected by a footbridge. However, as Platform 1 is short, it is not in normal operation. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.
| 1 | ■ Uetsu Main Line | out of service |
| 2 | ■ Uetsu Main Line | for Sakata, Ugo-Honjō, and Akita |
| 3 | ■ Uetsu Main Line | for Tsuruoka, Murakami, and Niigata |
| 4 | ■ Rikuu West Line | for Sakata |
| 5 | ■ Rikuu West Line | for Shinjō and Furukuchi |
Amarume Station opened on 20 September 1914.[1] A new station building was opened in 1965.[2] With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 503 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[3] The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
