Yanagimoto Station (柳本駅, Yanagimoto-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Tenri, Nara, Japan. It is operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West).

Although the station is on the Sakurai Line as rail infrastructure, it has been served by the Man-yō Mahoroba Line since 2010 in terms of passenger train services. It is 14.3 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Nara.

Yanagimoto Station is an above-ground station with two opposed side platforms with two tracks, connected by a footbridge. The station is staffed.

1	■  U  Man-yō Mahoroba Line	for Nara
2	■  U  Man-yō Mahoroba Line	for Wakayama, Ōji, Takada, Sakurai for JR Namba

Yanagimoto Station was opened on 11 May 1898 as a station on the Nara Railway. The line was transferrer to the Kansai Railway on 7 February 1905, which was subsequently nationalized on 1 October 1907. The current station building was completed in 1930. With the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station was transferred to JR West. The station building was transferred to the city of Tenri in 2019, and was remodeled to include a cafe and retail spaces.

The average daily passenger traffic in fiscal 2020 was 466 passengers.。

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