The station has a two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. There is a third track in the middle for storing trains.
Yokokawa Station opened on October 15, 1885, as the terminus of the governmental railway between Takasaki and Yokokawa. The station became an intermediate station of the railway connecting Takasaki and Niigata (later named the Shinetsu Main Line) when the Usui Pass section of the railway, connecting Yokokawa and Karuizawa, opened on April 1, 1893.[1]
The Usui Pass section of the railway closed on October 1, 1997. Yokokawa Station has been the terminus of the line since then.[1]
The former Yokokawa locomotive depot for bank engines used on the Usui Pass was transformed into the Usui Pass Railway Heritage Park, which exhibits the bank engines (JNR Class EF63 electric locomotives) and other rolling stock.
JR BUS KANTO has been operating a route bus Usui Line which connects Karuizawa Station with this station as a bustitution of Shin'etsu Main Line's closed section since 1997.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 208 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[2]
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