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Yakō Station is a railway station on the Nambu Line in Tsurumi Ward of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).LinesYakō Station is served by the 35.5 km Nambu Line from to, and is 2.6 km from the southern terminus of the line at Kawasaki.Station layoutYakō Station has one side platform (platform 1) and one island platform (platform 2/3) serving a total three tracks, connected by a footbridge. Platform 1 for down (Tachikawa-bound) services is on the west side of the station, alongside the station building, and the up (Kawasaki-bound) platforms 2 and 3 are connected by a footbridge.Stabling sidings lie adjacent to platform 3 on the east side of the station and also on the east side of the line south of the station.PlatformsPlatform 3 is normally used only by trains to Kawasaki starting here during the morning and evening peak hours.Adjacent stations}HistoryYakō Station opened as a station on the Nambu Railway on March 9, 1927.The station building was burnt down during the bombing in 1945, and was later rebuilt.With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.Passenger statisticsIn fiscal 2014, the station was used by an average of 17,837 passengers daily . The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.