Ina-Yawata

History

Ina-Yawata Station opened on 17 December 1926 as the terminus of an Ina Electric Railway extension from Iida; it became an intermediate stop on 5 February 1927 when the line was pushed further to a provisional Kega terminus. The Ina Electric line was absorbed into the Iida Line on 1 August 1943 under wartime nationalisation. Carload freight ended on 1 July 1975, the station became an outsourced operation in February 1984, and the parcels service was withdrawn in March 1985. With the 1 April 1987 breakup of Japanese National Railways, the stop joined JR Central. It was made unstaffed at night in 1992 and fully unstaffed in March 1994.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

In the days when the Iida Line ran express services, Ina-Yawata was one of the designated express stops.