History
Yumigahama Station is on JR West's Sakai Line in Yumi-machi, Yonago, Tottori. It opened on 1 July 1917 as a new passenger station between Gotō and Ōshinozu (today Yonago Airport Station) on the Railway Bureau's Sakai Line, then became a full general station on 1 April 1927. Reverted to passenger-only with unstaffing on 11 September 1972. JR West took over at privatisation on 1 April 1987. From 16 March 2019 on-board IC reader-style ticket gates allowed ICOCA acceptance. Two side platforms either side of a passing track, with the up-line geometrically straight; the entrance signals only face one direction, so it isn't a true one-track-through setup. Like every station on the Sakai Line, it has a nickname from a yōkai folktale — 'Azukiarai' (the bean-washing ghost).
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Every station on the Sakai Line has a nickname taken from a Japanese yōkai (folkloric supernatural creature) drawn by Yonago-born manga artist Shigeru Mizuki — Yumigahama's is 'Azukiarai-eki' (Bean-Washing Spirit Station), the ghost said to wash adzuki beans on riverbanks before haunting passers-by.