Yaka

Weekday departures: 11/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 47/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 7:13 / 24:34 (00:34 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 21:00–22:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line: Shirahamanomiya ⇄ Matogata

Yaka Station opened on 19 August 1923 as part of the Kobe-Himeji Electric Railway, the original operator of what is now the Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line. Operational control passed to Ujigawa Electric in 1927 and to Sanyo Electric Railway in 1933 when the rail business was spun off. The station handled freight in addition to passengers for decades, but small-lot freight service was withdrawn in December 1966 and the goods sidings and crossover were removed in August 1968. Later that year the platforms were lengthened to accommodate four-car formations, and the station building was rebuilt in September 1982. The station now has two opposed side platforms, no ticket-window staff, and is numbered SY 37.

Yaka Station stands on the east bank of the Yaka River, whose mouth forms Yaka Port. The west bank is a dense belt of housing and factories, while the east bank is backed by a line of low hills, so passengers arriving from the Shikama direction see the view from the train change roughly at this station.