History
Yorihata Station, on the JR Central Minobu Line in the town of Nanbu, Minamikoma District, Yamanashi Prefecture, opened on 1 November 1931 as a halt on the privately built Fuji-Minobu Line. It was upgraded to a full station in October 1938 when the Railway Bureau leased the line, and the line itself was nationalised on 1 May 1941. Operation passed to JR Central at the 1987 privatisation. The single bidirectional side platform sits 31.9 kilometres from the southern terminus at Fuji, has no station building and is unstaffed, served by a simple waiting shelter.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although Yorihata sits across the Fuji River from the village of Tokuma, the absence of any nearby bridge means residents of Tokuma typically use Ide or Utsubuna stations instead.