Hottoyuda

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Hottoyuda Station opened on 16 December 1922 as Rikuchū-Kawajiri Station on the Ministry of Railways' Nishi-Yokoguro Line. Freight handling ended in November 1982 and parcel service in February 1984. With the 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways, operation passed to JR East. A new wooden two-storey building incorporating the public bathhouse 'Hotto-Yuda' opened on 1 April 1989, and on 20 June 1991 the station was renamed Hotto-Yuda. In January 1995 a station overbridge — funded by the then town of Yuda — opened, making it the first overbridge on the Kitakami Line built within station grounds. The station was listed among the Top 100 Stations of Tōhoku in 2002.

The bathhouse inside the station has a track-signal indicator on its wall — green 45 minutes before a train's departure, yellow at 30, red at 15 — to warn bathers when to head for the platform.