History
Yuge Station opened on December 21, 1898 with the Tsuyama Line in what is now the town of Kumenan, Kume District, Okayama Prefecture, on the JR West Tsuyama Line 40.5 km from the southern terminus at Okayama. The station passed to JR West at JNR privatization on April 1, 1987. The station building, owned by the town of Kumenan, sits beside Platform 2 and connects to Platform 1 via a footbridge; the station is staffed. JR West reported an average of about 196 passengers per day in fiscal 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.