Yobe

Weekday departures: 67/day · Sat & holiday departures: 67/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:32 / 23:30

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (5)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Kishin Line: Oichi ⇄ Harima-Takaoka

Yobe Station opened on 1 September 1930 as the terminus of the Railway Ministry's Himetsu Line out of Himeji. Subsequent extensions made it a through stop from December 1931, and the route became part of the Kishin Line on 10 October 1936. Freight handling ended in 1961 and parcel service in 1971, when the station also lost its staff. JR West succeeded the station on 1 April 1987 at JNR privatisation. In 2006 Himeji City completed a station-plaza upgrade with a bus terminal, and in 2008 Shinki Bus opened three new routes. ICOCA service began on 26 March 2016. The Midori-no-Madoguchi staffed window closed on 30 November 2024 and the station became fully unattended on 1 December 2024.

Despite being only 6.1 km from Himeji, Yobe is the busiest stand-alone station on the Kishin Line outside Himeji itself; an adjacent JR West railcar depot generates extra Himeji–Yobe shuttle workings, and a prefectural university campus and a high school stand near the station.