Amarume Station 余目駅
Station building, July 2009
General information
Location	Sawada Amarume, Shōnai-machi, Higashitagawa-gun, Yamagata-ken 999-7781 Japan
Coordinates	38°50′40″N139°54′41″E / 38.844329°N 139.911361°E /38.844329; 139.911361
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	■Uetsu Main Line ■Rikuu West Line
Distance	154.7 kilometers fromNiitsu
Platforms	1 side + 2 island platforms
Other information
Status	Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi )
Website	Official website
History
Opened	20 September 1914
Passengers
FY2018	503 daily
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Tsuruoka towardsNiigata Inaho Sakata towardsAkita Nishibukuro towardsNiitsu Uetsu Main Line Kita-Amarume towardsAkita Karikawa towardsShinjō Rikuu West Line RapidMogamigawa Sakata Terminus Minamino One-way operation Minamino towardsShinjō Rikuu West Line Local Kita-Amarume towardsSakata
Location AmarumeStation Location within Yamagata Prefecture Show map of Yamagata Prefecture AmarumeStation AmarumeStation (Japan) Show map of Japan

Amarume Station (余目駅,Amarume-eki) is a junctionrailway station in the town ofShōnai, Yamagata, Japan, operated by theEast Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Amarume Station is served by theRikuu West Line and theUetsu Main Line. The station is located 154.7 rail kilometers from the starting point of the Uetsu Main Line atNiitsu Station, and is the official terminus of the 42.0 kilometer Rikuu West Line, although most trains continue on toSakata Station.

Amarume Station has oneside platform next to the station building and twoisland platforms connected by a footbridge. However, as Platform 1 is short, it is not in normal operation. The station has aMidori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Amarume Station opened on 20 September 1914.^[1] A new station building was opened in 1965.^[2] With theprivatization ofJNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.

Infiscal 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.

• Shōnai Town Hall
• Amarume Post Office

• List of railway stations in Japan

• Media related toAmarume Station at Wikimedia Commons
• Amarume Station information (JR East)(in Japanese)

• Stations of East Japan Railway Company
• Railway stations in Yamagata Prefecture
• Rikuu West Line
• Uetsu Main Line
• Railway stations in Japan opened in 1914
• Shōnai, Yamagata

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