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The Yamato-Yagi Station is a large Kintetsu train station serving Yagi, with express lines to downtown Osaka (40 minutes), Kyoto (1 hour) and Nara city (20 minutes). A large percentage of Yagi's population work in these neighboring cities. Yagi has a considerable foreign population made up of English language teachers and Peruvian factory workers.
The name Yagi has been used to name five tropical cyclones in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The name was submitted by Japan , which is the Japanese word for goat and the Japanese name of the constellation Capricornus .
Yagi is easily accessible via the JR Sagano Train Line from Kyoto. Yagi has a long history dating back at least as far as the Nara Period, when Yagi's extant Sanin Road was a main route through the prefecture, linking Kyoto to Kameoka and Sonobe. In 1960 Yagi and the surrounding area was hit by a massive typhoon. The banks of the Ōi River ...
Yagi-nishiguchi Station, in Kashihara, Nara, Japan Kami-Yagi Station , a JR-West Kabe Line station located in 3-chōme, Yagi, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan Rikutyū-Yagi Station , a railway station on the East Japan Railway Company Hachinohe Line located in Hirono, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Hidetsugu Yagi (八木 秀次, Yagi Hidetsugu, January 28, 1886 – January 19, 1976) was a Japanese electrical engineer from Osaka, Japan. When working at Tohoku Imperial University , he wrote several articles that introduced a new antenna designed by his assistant Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world.
Yagi–Uda antenna design for communication at a wavelength of λ.. Shintaro Uda (宇田 新太郎, Uda Shintarō, June 1, 1896 – August 18, 1976) was a Japanese inventor, and assistant to Professor Hidetsugu Yagi at Tohoku Imperial University, where together they invented the Yagi–Uda antenna in 1926.
Yagi Station opened on 15 August 1899. With the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company. Station numbering was introduced in March 2018 with Yagi being assigned station number JR-E14.
Yagi (written: 八木) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alissa Yagi (八木 アリサ, born 1995), Japanese model and actress; Hidetsugu Yagi (八木 秀次, 1886–1976), electrical engineer and professor; developer of the Yagi-Uda antenna