Yatagawa Station
railway station in Koriyama, Fukushima prefecture, Japan
Yatagawa Station (谷田川駅, Yatagawa-eki) is a railway station in the city of Kōriyama, Fukushima, Japan operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Yatagawa Station is served by the Suigun Line, and is located 128.9 rail kilometers from the official starting point of the line at Mito.
Station layout
The station has two opposed unnumbered side platforms connected to the station building by a level crossing. The station is unattended.
Platforms
History
Yatagawa Station opened on May 10, 1929. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11633047. Authority coordinates are 37.314, 140.431. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1929 and 1987.
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This entry incorporates text from “Yatagawa 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.