History
Bingo-Yawata Station opened on 15 June 1935 when Japanese Government Railways extended the Sanshin Line between Tōjō and Onuka. In 1937 the Sanshin Line was absorbed into the Geibi Line, of which the station has been part ever since. Freight handling ended in 1972 and the station was made unstaffed in 1983. With the 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways operation passed to JR West. Following a 2001 timetable change that ended scheduled crossings, the former up-line platform was decommissioned and the station now operates as a halt with a single side platform; the contracted ticket-sales arrangement at the nearby Suga Post Office was discontinued in April 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
A short distance from the platform sits the wrecked steel framework of a small tram bridge once used to haul raw materials for the Teikoku Iron & Steel Company.