Yakeishi

Known weekday departures: 23/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 23/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:47 / 23:22

Busiest hour in the available data: 6:00–7:00 (2)

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 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Takayama Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• 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.