Yakeishi

Weekday departures: 23/day · Sat & holiday departures: 23/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:47 / 23:22

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

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

• Takayama Line: Gero ⇄ Hida-Kanayama

Yakeishi Station opened on 14 April 1929 as the temporary terminus of the Takayama Line, which had just been extended north from Hida-Kanayama, in what is now Gero, Gifu Prefecture. On 2 November 1930 the line was extended to Gero, and Yakeishi became an intermediate stop. Freight handling ceased in February 1961 and parcel traffic in February 1984; the station was made unstaffed on 1 April 1985, and passed to JR Central at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. A new station building replaced the original — built 86 years earlier — on 19 March 2015. The neighbouring stations are both more than 9 km away, with signal stations placed between them.

On 26 April 2009 a suspected lightning strike burned out the signal-equipment room at Yakeishi, forcing the line to fall back on substitute manual block working for five days until normal signalling was restored on 1 May.