Yaga Station (Kanagawa)

Yaga Station (谷峨駅, Yaga-eki^?) is a train station on the Gotemba Line located on the southern part of Yamakita, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Initially primarily a freight station, used to transport firewood and charcoal from the Tanzawa Mountains, Yaga Station now serves only passenger traffic to nearby Lake Tanzawa and the Nakagawa onsen resorts. Japan National Route 246 passes next to this station.

Station history

Yaga Station was established on March 15, 1907 as the Yaga signal station of the Japanese Government Railways, the predecessor to the JNR, when the line from Yamakita to Suruga^Oyama was completed. It was upgraded to a full station on July 15, 1947. The line was electrified in 1968, and freight operations discontinued from 1971. With the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, it came under the operational control of the Central Japan Railway Company. Express train service was discontinued from 1991. A new station building was completed in March 2000.

Station layout

Yaga Station is an unmanned station with two opposed ground side platforms.

Adjacent stations

References

• Harris, Ken and Clarke, Jackie. Jane's World Railways 2008-2009. Jane's Information Group (2008). ISBN 0-7106-2861-7

• (Japanese) Ishino, Tetsu et al. (eds.) (1998) (in Japanese). Teishajō Hensen Daijiten - Kokutetsu JR Hen. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. vol. II. ISBN 4533029809. 
• (Japanese) Official home page