Yakujin

Weekday departures: 51/day · Sat & holiday departures: 51/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:20 / 23:00

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Kakogawa Line: Ichiba (Hyogo · JR West) ⇄ Kanno

Yakujin Station opened on 1 April 1913 as Kunikane Station, the original terminus of the Banshū Railway in Kakogawa, Hyōgo Prefecture. The line was extended to Nishiwaki on 10 August 1913 and the station became intermediate. On 22 November 1916, the Banshū Railway’s branch (predecessor of the Miki Line) opened, and Kunikane was renamed Yakujin so a second-generation Kunikane Station could take the original name. Following the Bantan Railway era and wartime nationalisation in 1943, the station became part of JNR. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West, and the Miki Railway closure on 1 April 2008 left it a single JR Kakogawa Line stop. Full unstaffing came on 1 April 2022.

On the Ichiba side of the station grounds is a rolling-stock depot, the Kakogawa Substation of JR West's Aboshi General Rolling Stock Center (formerly the Yakujin base), where trains are also stabled overnight.