History
Izumo Yashiro Station opened on 18 December 1932 when the Ministry of Railways completed the Kisuki Line extension between Kisuki and Izumo Minari, in what is now Okuizumo town, Shimane Prefecture. The Kisuki Line was reorganised as part of Japanese National Railways after the war, and ticket sales and parcel handling were withdrawn on 1 October 1971. The station passed to JR West with privatisation on 1 April 1987. It retains the original wooden station building but is unattended, with a single side platform after the second track and platform were removed. JR West manages it through the Kisuki Railway Subdivision as a station with limited delegated agency sales.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The platform stood in for nearby Kamedake Station during the filming of the 1974 mystery film Suna no Utsuwa (Castle of Sand); the station building seen on screen was at adjacent Yakawa.