Train service
Weekday departures: 31/day · Sat & holiday departures: 31/day
First / last train (weekday): 6:19 / 23:20
Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (3)
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0:00 ─ 23:00
Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.
Location
History
Yairo Station opened on 15 January 1965 as an unstaffed passenger halt on the Jōetsu Line, 127.0 km from the line's southern terminus at Takasaki. A station building was completed in July 1968. The station was absorbed into JR East with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. It retains two opposed side platforms serving two tracks, with no footbridge or level crossing connecting them inside the station precincts—passengers transferring sides must use a nearby town-road level crossing on the Mukaimachi side. There is no station building today; only a sheltered waiting area sits on each platform.
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Last updated: 2026-06-09