History
Higashiyamakōen Station construction began on 14 November 1992, and the station opened on 18 March 1993 as a new infill station on the West Japan Railway (JR West) San'in Main Line between Hōki-Daisen and Yonago, in what is now Kuruma-o, Yonago, Tottori Prefecture. The station also serves Hakubi Line trains in operational practice. The station became ICOCA-compatible on 17 December 2016 using simplified IC-only fare-collection equipment. It has two opposed side platforms on an embankment, with the entrance on the southbound (track 2) side and an open footbridge to the northbound platform. The station has no turnouts or absolute signals and is technically classified as a halt; it is normally unstaffed but JR West dispatches staff during weekday-morning peak hours.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Higashiyamakōen serves the adjoining Yonago City Higashiyama Athletic Park and Yonago Municipal Baseball Stadium; when professional baseball games or Gainare Tottori football matches take place nearby, the station becomes unusually crowded, and on some occasions even the limited express Yakumo has made extra stops here (notably on 13-14 May 2014 for the first NPB official game at the stadium in about four years).