History
Yamajō Station (S05) is on the Sangi Railway Sangi Line in Yamajō-chō, Yokkaichi, Mie, 7.0 km from the line's terminus at Kintetsu-Tomida. It opened on 23 July 1931, the same day as the rest of the original Sangi Line, and consists of a single island platform serving two tracks linked to the station building by a level crossing. On 16 April 2014 about 50 m² of the station building — comprising the rest room and toilets — were destroyed by a fire believed to be of suspicious origin.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Yamajō's front plaza is unusually large because the station once hosted a bus garage; the garage has since moved to the JR Tomida depot, and the cleared apron is now used as commuter parking and as a turn-around for buses on the Sangi Yamanōisshiki Line.