History
Yanase Station opened on 25 October 1911 when the Railway Agency completed the Bantan Line branch between Fukuchiyama and Wadayama, with passenger and freight handling from the outset. On 1 March 1912 the line-name revision absorbed the Fukuchiyama - Wadayama - Kasumi section of the Bantan Line into the Sanin Main Line, transferring the station with it. Freight handling was abolished on 1 March 1963 and the station became a simple-commission station on 1 October 1984. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West, and on 1 October 2022 its administration moved to the Fukuchiyama Management Office of the new Kinki Operations Headquarters.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Yanase is the first station in Hyōgo Prefecture on the Sanin Main Line approaching from Kyoto. The single island platform serves two tracks for train crossings, with the original wooden station building on the north-east side connected to the platform by a footbridge; the station has no one-line-through arrangement and both directions use Y-point switches, so platforms are assigned by direction. Yutoyokawa River separates the station from the old Santō Town centre. Some limited expresses formerly stopped here, but the station lost that status when those services were upgraded to special-express; following the 16 March 2013 timetable revision the local trains that pass Genbudō Station are operated as 'rapid' services, nominally making Yanase a rapid stop as well.