Station

Yoshidaguchi

吉田口

Yoshidaguchi
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Train service

Weekday departures: 27/day · Sat & holiday departures: 27/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:54 / 22:44

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (3)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Yoshidaguchi Station opened on 28 April 1915 with the inauguration of the Geibi Railway. Its name — "Yoshida entrance" — reflects a compromise: the line could not technically reach the town of Yoshida, so the operator placed this stop about 1 km south, leaving room for a future branch toward the town. That branch was formalised under the 1922 Railway Construction Act but never built. Geibi Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1937, and at the 1987 break-up of JNR the station passed to JR West. The current building, completed by the former Kōda town in November 1992 as a multi-purpose hall named "Pratt House," replaced the earlier wooden structure. Operations were suspended by rain damage in July 2018.

Notes

The station opened only after a long dispute: Yoshida town demanded that the new line pass through its centre, but every alternative route the town proposed was rejected as technically impractical. The eventual compromise placed a stop south of the town with the explicit hope that a Yoshida branch would later be built.

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