History
Yoshitomi Station opened on 20 July 1935 as a new stop on the Ministry of Railways' San'in Main Line, between Yagi and Sonobe, handling only passenger journeys between Kyoto, Fukuchiyama and Osaka. Operations were suspended on 10 August 1941 and resumed on 1 October 1951. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation, the station passed to JR West, and on 13 March 1988 it began using the Sagano Line nickname for this stretch of the San'in Main Line. On 11 March 1989 the station was relocated 200 metres toward Yagi when a passing loop was installed, and the surrounding section between Yagi and Sonobe was double-tracked on 14 March 2009, leaving Yoshitomi as a simple two-platform stop without point work.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Yoshitomi's station building is shared with the local post office, an unusual combined structure facing platform 1.