Yairo

Known weekday departures: 31/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 31/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 6:19 / 23:20

Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• Joetsu Line: Koide ⇄ Urasa

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 Muikamachi side. There is no station building today; only a sheltered waiting area sits on each platform.