History
Yakage Station opened on 11 January 1999 with the inauguration of the Ibara Line, a third-sector route running between Sōja and Kannabe through the rural hills of southern Okayama and northern Hiroshima. Located 18.2 kilometres from the Sōja terminus, the elevated station has a single island platform serving two tracks, allowing trains to pass each other. The station building, set on the southwest side of the platform, is a Japanese-style structure designed to echo Yakage's heritage as a post town on the old San'yō-dō. Unlike many Ibara Line halts, it is staffed under a simplified commission arrangement.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Yakage Station is not the local "Yakage Station" most townsfolk mean: a kilometre to the southwest, the old Ibara Railway bus terminal still wears the original "Yakage Station" signboard from the long-defunct narrow-gauge railway, and locals continue to use that name for the bus stop.