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.
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