Yamaga Station
railway station in Ayabe, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Yamaga Station (山家駅, Yamaga-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Ayabe, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
Lines
Yamaga Station is served by the San'in Main Line, and is located 69.0 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kyoto.
Station layout
The station consists of one ground-level island platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is unattended.
Platforms
Adjacent stations
History
Yamaga Station opened on August 25, 1910. With the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 46 passengers daily.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Yamaga Station” as railway station in Ayabe, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as railway station in Ayabe, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q871068. Authority coordinates are 35.294, 135.319. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1910, 1987 and 2018.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Yamaga Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.