History
Shimo-Yakuno Station opened on 25 October 1911 with the Banshū Line extension between Fukuchiyama and Wadayama, and was reclassified as a San'in Main Line station the following year when the route was renamed. Freight handling ended on 15 December 1970 and staffing was reduced to daytime hours, with the station moving to simplified-commission status on 1 October 1984. It passed to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987. In May 2022 the ticket machine was removed, and in October that year the wooden station building was demolished and replaced with a basic shelter and benches; daily ridership in fiscal 2023 was 70.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Before the line was straightened, the station had a former through-track configuration; today, even express trains pass through at reduced speed because the surviving 1-island, 2-track layout is split by direction rather than using the more usual single-line-through arrangement.