Roadside Station Sanyo Road Yakage-juku

This roadside station is located along National Route 486 in Yakage-cho, a post town on the former Sanyo Expressway. The design of the station building was supervised by Eiji Mitooka, an industrial designer from Okayama who designed the Ibara Railway's Yume Yasuragi, the Kyushu Shinkansen Tsubame, and the luxury sleeper train Seven Stars in Kyushu. The adjacent shopping street is positioned as a product sales and food and beverage corner, and this is an unusual style in which there are no food and beverage or product sales stores within the facility. On the first floor there is a corner introducing sightseeing and local products in Yakage town, on the second floor there is a kids' room with a ball pool and picture books, a corner introducing Mr. Mitooka's works, and a spacious deck that goes around the building.