History
Yakawa Station opened on 20 November 1934 as the terminus when the Ministry of Railways extended the Kisuki Line from Izumo-Minari; the line was pushed on to Bingo-Ochiai on 12 December 1937 and Yakawa became an intermediate stop. Ticket sales and parcel handling by JNR staff ended on 1 October 1971. The station passed to JR West at the 1987 privatisation. Originally a two-track passing station, the second track and Platform 2 were later removed, leaving a single side platform; the wooden station building remains and is staffed under a simple-trust arrangement managed from Kisuki.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1974 film Castle of Sand used Yakawa's wooden station building as the stand-in for Kamedake Station; platform scenes were filmed separately at Izumo-Yashiro.