Station

Fukura

吹浦

Fukura
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Fukura Station opened on 20 July 1920 on the Uetsu Main Line in what is now the town of Yuza, Yamagata. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1962 and parcel handling on 15 October 1981, when the station became unattended and was placed under a simple-agency contract. The station joined JR East at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. The simple-agency arrangement was discontinued on 1 April 2008, leaving the station fully unstaffed. On 1 April 2010 the managing station for Fukura shifted from Kisakata to Ugo-Honjō. The station has one side platform and one island platform connected by a footbridge.

Notes

Outside the station stands a bronze statue of Sato Masayoshi, who was born locally and served as Japan's first Railway Assistant Director in the Meiji era.

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