History
Yoroi Station opened on 1 March 1912 when the Railway Agency's San'in Main Line was extended from Kasumi to Hamasaka, in what is now the town of Kami, Mikata District, Hyōgo Prefecture. Small-parcel freight handling and the staffed ticket office ended on 15 December 1970. The station building was rebuilt in 1980. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 it came under JR West. Services were temporarily suspended between 17 July and 11 August 2010 for works on the new Amarube Viaduct, with buses substituted. From the 2012 timetable revision some Local trains began to skip the station; in 2021 those services were redesignated as Rapid trains, and from 13 March 2021 all Local services again stop here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Although the second platform has been out of regular service since 2008 and its rails were lifted in 2012, the disused 1-bansen platform remains open to passengers because it offers a sweeping view of the Sea of Japan; the unattended station also features in Teru Miyamoto's novel "Kaigan Ressha" and a 2004 TBS dramatisation of "Suna no Utsuwa."