Station

Yakujin

厄神

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Yakujin
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Timetable information

Known weekday departures: 51/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 51/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:20 / 23:00

Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (4)


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).

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Yakujin Station opened on 1 April 1913 as Kunikane Station, the original terminus of the Banshū Railway in Kakogawa, Hyōgo Prefecture. The line was extended to Nishiwaki on 10 August 1913 and the station became intermediate. On 22 November 1916, the Banshū Railway’s branch (predecessor of the Miki Line) opened, and Kunikane was renamed Yakujin so a second-generation Kunikane Station could take the original name. Following the Bantan Railway era and wartime nationalisation in 1943, the station became part of JNR. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West, and the Miki Railway closure on 1 April 2008 left it a single JR Kakogawa Line stop. Full unstaffing came on 1 April 2022.

Notes

On the Ichiba side of the station grounds is a rolling-stock depot, the Kakogawa Substation of JR West's Aboshi General Rolling Stock Center (formerly the Yakujin base), where trains are also stabled overnight.

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