Yono Station (与野駅) is in Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture, and is run by East Japan Railway Company on the Keihin–Tōhoku Line. It opened on 1 November 1912.
History
The Ohara signal station opened on 16 April 1906 between Urawa and Omiya on the Nippon Railway main line. The Nippon Railway was nationalized on 1 November 1906. On 12 October 1909 the line became part of the Tohoku Main Line. Local residents petitioned for a station, and in 1911 the Imperial Diet approved turning the signal station into a station. Yono Station opened on 1 November 1912, with a ticket gate only on the west side, facing Yono town.
Freight handling ended on 5 June 1949. Wagon freight handling began on 1 September 1951. The east exit opened on 24 November 1958. Freight handling ended again on 1 July 1959, and the platform was moved east on 13 September 1959. The raised station was built on 20 January 1960. Parcel handling ended on 1 May 1970. The Musashino Line freight branch opened on 1 April 1973.
The Japanese National Railways became JR East on 1 April 1987. Automatic ticket gates were installed on 3 December 1992. The station was once written with an older form of the second character, 與野, which faded after the postwar kanji rules spread. When the station was planned, Yono town and Kizaki village each wanted it named after them, and the railway authority suggested Ohara. The name Yono was finally chosen. Suica became usable on 18 November 2001.
The Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed on 23 April 2013. Station duties were outsourced from 1 May 2013. Smart platform doors began on 9 December 2020.
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