Yamato (Ibaraki)

Weekday departures: 48/day · Sat & holiday departures: 48/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:43 / 23:18

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 5 May 2026.

• JR Mito Line: Iwase ⇄ Niihari

Yamato Station opened on 20 June 1988 on the JR East Mito Line. Suica IC card service began on 18 November 2001, and a departure-melody system was introduced on 14 March 2009. When the station first opened most daytime local trains passed through without stopping, but since 9 July 2005 every Mito Line train calls here.

Yamato Station stands in the former Yamato village area in the western part of Sakuragawa and takes its name from the village; before it opened there had been no Mito Line station in old Yamato, and for about a year between the abolition of the Tsukuba Railway Tsukuba Line in 1987 and the opening of Yamato itself the village had been without any rail station at all. It is the nearest station to Sakuragawa City Hall, the former Yamato village office, though the building sits about 4 km away; since October 2018 Sakuragawa City bus services from the 'Yamato-eki-iriguchi' stop about 200 m from the station have provided access to the Yamato government building (the city hall) and to the Kantō Railway Tsukuba-Kita depot.