History
Yunotsu Station opened on 25 November 1918 when the San'in Main Line was extended between Nima and Asari stations under the Imperial Japanese Government Railways. It serves the city of Ōda in Shimane Prefecture and is located 437.9 kilometres from the line's terminus at Kyoto. Freight handling ceased in 1973 and parcel service in 1985. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, the station passed to JR West. A new station building opened in 2004, shared with the local JA branch office, which handled ticket sales until daily staffing ended on 1 April 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Despite its name's unusual reading ("Yunotsu" written as 温泉津), the station is the gateway to a hot-spring district inside the Iwami Ginzan UNESCO World Heritage Site.