History
Yabe Station traces its origin to 1 September 1950, when the Japanese National Railways opened a temporary Sagami flag-stop to serve workers commuting to the United States Army's Sagami General Depot via the Yokohama Line. It was upgraded to a full station and renamed Yabe on 1 October 1957. The station building was rebuilt as a bridge-style structure in October 1979 when the line was double-tracked. JR East took over on 1 April 1987. Automatic ticket gates were installed on 1 September 1994, Suica acceptance began on 18 November 2001, and smart platform doors entered service on 15 March 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The distance between Yabe and the next station, Fuchinobe, is just 800 metres — the shortest inter-station interval on the Yokohama Line.