History
Yokoo Station opened on 1914-07-21 on the Ryōbi Light Railway in what is now Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. The line passed to the Ryōbi Railway in 1926 and was nationalised in 1933, becoming part of the Fukuen Line. The original route ran south to Yoshizu Station, but the line was rerouted west toward Fukuyama in 1935 when the narrow gauge could not accommodate the wider Fukuen profile, making Yokoo the junction between the old alignment and the new one. Freight handling ended in 1959 and the station was reduced to a simply-contracted halt in 1970. JR West took over at the 1987 privatisation, and ICOCA gates were installed in 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Yokoo appears in Kappa Senoo's novel A Boy Called H as the nearest station to the protagonist's maternal grandparents' home.