History
Yamabuki Station opened on 15 January 1923 as the terminus of an Ina Electric Railway extension from Ina-Ōshima, in what is now the town of Takamori, Nagano Prefecture. It became a through station on 13 March 1923 when the line was extended to Ichida. The Ina Electric Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1943 and incorporated into the Iida Line of the Railway Ministry. The station was de-staffed in February 1983, and at the 1 April 1987 dissolution of JNR it became part of JR Central. The opposite platform was removed in January 2008 to convert the layout to a single track, and a new simple-shelter station building entered service in December 2008.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In keeping with the station name (yamabuki means "Japanese kerria rose"), Japanese kerria has been planted along the down-direction platform as a small living signpost.