Yanase

Known weekday departures: 27/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 27/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 6:10 / 22:55

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

• San'in Main Line: Kami-Yakuno ⇄ Wadayama

Yanase Station opened on 25 October 1911 when the Railway Agency completed the Bantan Line branch between Fukuchiyama and Wadayama, with passenger and freight handling from the outset. On 1 March 1912 the line-name revision absorbed the Fukuchiyama - Wadayama - Kasumi section of the Bantan Line into the Sanin Main Line, transferring the station with it. Freight handling was abolished on 1 March 1963 and the station became a simple-commission station on 1 October 1984. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West, and on 1 October 2022 its administration moved to the Fukuchiyama Management Office of the new Kinki Operations Headquarters.

Yanase is the first station in Hyōgo Prefecture on the San'in Main Line approaching from Kyoto. The single island platform serves two tracks for train crossings, with the station building — in place since the line opened — on the north-east side, connected to the platform by a footbridge; the station has no one-line-through arrangement and both directions use Y-point switches, so platforms are assigned by direction. The Yofudo River separates the station from the old Santō Town centre. Some express trains formerly stopped here, but the station lost that status when those services were upgraded to limited expresses; following the 16 March 2013 timetable revision the local trains that pass Genbudō Station are operated as "rapid" services, nominally making Yanase a rapid stop as well.