History
Yabase Station opened on 4 July 1928 as a seasonal temporary stop called Yabasehama, between the original Yabase Station (now Urayasu Station) and Akasaki, in what is today the town of Kotoura, Tottori Prefecture. It was upgraded to a year-round station on 20 August 1938 and renamed Yabase. After becoming an agency station in 1968 and being unstaffed in 1972, it joined JR West at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. ICOCA service is scheduled to begin in spring 2027. The station is a single-platform halt with the building doubling as the Yabase Community Centre.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station building is shared with the Yabase Community Centre, and passengers reach the single side platform either by a flight of stairs or an accessible ramp from the centre.