Station

Yachiho

八千穂

Yachiho
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Yachiho Station opened on 11 March 1919 as Sakuhozumi Station, simultaneously with the Saku Railway's Haguroshita–Komi extension, handling both passengers and freight. The Saku Railway was nationalised on 1 September 1934 and absorbed into the Ministry of Railways' Komi North Line, later the Koumi Line. The station was renamed Yachiho on 1 October 1959. Freight handling ceased in 1970 and the station became unstaffed in 1991, latterly running under a simple commission arrangement with Sakuho Town. On 12 October 2020, the introduction of a wireless train-control system removed the passing loop, leaving a single platform serving traffic in both directions.

Notes

In June 1933 a runaway gasoline railcar left unbraked at Komi rolled downhill into Sakuhozumi, where the stationmaster diverted it onto a siding to spare a student-laden railcar; the buffer was punched through and the station building partly destroyed, injuring one passenger.

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