Yamagawachi

Weekday departures: 21/day · Sat & holiday departures: 21/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:52 / 23:14

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (2)

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• Mugi Line: Hiwasa ⇄ Hegawa

Yamagawachi Station opened on 1 July 1942 as an intermediate stop when Japanese Government Railways extended the Mugi Line south from Hiwasa to Mugi. It is located in the town of Minami in Tokushima Prefecture and carries the number M22. The station became a business-outsourced stop in 1959, lost its freight handling in 1970, and was unstaffed from 1972. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987 control passed to JR Shikoku. The station-side track was removed at the 1972 unstaffing, reducing the layout to a single side platform; the original modest JNR-era station building was later demolished after JR Shikoku took over, replaced by a covered waiting shelter on the platform.

The station sits at 65.2 metres above sea level, in a narrow valley flanked on both sides by mountains and home to a small village that grew up along National Route 55.