Timetable information
Weekday departures: 20/day · Sat & holiday departures: 20/day
First / last departure (weekday): 5:47 / 22:36
Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (2)
0:00 ─ 23:00
Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.
Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.
Adjacent stations
- Nishikigawa Seiryu Line: Nishikicho ⇄ Kawayama
Location
History
Yanaze Station opened on 1 October 1963 as an intermediate station on the Japanese National Railways' Gannichi Line when the route was extended from Kawayama to Nishikichō, in what is now Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The line passed to JR West on 1 April 1987 with JNR's privatisation and was then transferred to the third-sector Nishikigawa Railway on 25 July 1987, becoming part of the rebranded Nishikigawa Seiryū Line. The station is an unstaffed single-platform halt with a sheltered waiting area on the riverside; it has no station building, no toilet, and no vending machines, and it averaged just four passengers a day in fiscal 2011.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: 股太郎侍 · CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-18