Yaka

Weekday departures: 11/day · Sat & holiday departures: 47/day

First / last train (weekday): 7:13 / 24:34

Busiest hour: 21:00–22:00 (4)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line: Shirahamanomiya ⇄ Matogata

Yaka Station opened on 19 August 1923 as part of the Kobe-Himeji Electric Railway, the original operator of what is now the Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line. Operational control passed to Ujigawa Electric in 1927 and to Sanyo Electric Railway in 1933 when the rail business was spun off. The station handled freight in addition to passengers for decades, but small-lot freight service was withdrawn in December 1966 and the goods sidings and crossover were removed in August 1968. Later that year the platforms were lengthened to accommodate four-car formations, and the station building was rebuilt in September 1982. The station now has two opposed side platforms, no ticket-window staff, and is numbered SY 37.

Yaka sits east of the Yaka River, where surrounding rural hills give way to the river-mouth port — passengers can sense the change of scenery from the train as the station is reached.