Yagawara Station | |
Style: | JR East |
Native Name: | 谷河原駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | Isobe-cho, Hitachiōta-shi, Ibaraki-ken 313-0042 |
Country: | Japan |
Operator: | JR East |
Line: | Suigun Line |
Distance: | 8.2 km from |
Platforms: | 1 side platform |
Status: | Unstaffed |
Opened: | September 1, 1935 |
Closed: | 1941-1954 |
Former: | Satake (until 1954) |
Map Type: | Japan Ibaraki Prefecture#Japan |
Map Dot Label: | Yagawara Station |
is a passenger railway station in the city of Hitachiōta, Ibaraki Prefecture, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Yagawara Station is served by the Hitachi-Ōta Spur Line of the Suigun Line, and is located 8.2 rail kilometers from the official starting point of the spur line at Kami-Sugaya Station.
The station consists of a single side platform serving traffic in both directions. There is no station building, and station is unattended.
Yagawara Station opened on September 1, 1935 as . The station was closed from August 10, 1941 until October 21, 1954, when it reopened under its present name. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.