Orihata Station

Railway station in Nan'yō, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

38°03′59″N 140°07′21″E / 38.066492°N 140.122472°E / 38.066492; 140.122472Operated byYamagata RailwayLine(s)Flower Nagai LineHistoryOpened1959Previous namesNishi-Miyauchi (until 1988)PassengersFY 201146 daily

Orihata Station (おりはた駅, Orihata-eki) is a railway station in Nan'yō, Yamagata, Japan, operated by the Yamagata Railway.

Lines

Orihata Station is a station on the Flower Nagai Line, and is located 4.4 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Akayu Station.

Station layout

Orihata Station has a single side platform serving traffic in both directions. The station is unattended.^{[citation needed]}

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Flower Nagai Line
Miyauchi		Local		Ringō

History

Orihata Station opened on 1 June 1959 as Nishi-Miyauchi Station (西宮内駅, Nishi-Miyauchi-eki). The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987.

It and became a station on the Yamagata Railway from 25 October 1988, and was renamed to its present name on the same day.^[1]