History
Yakushidō Station opened on 1 August 1922 as the Yakushidō signal stop on the privately operated Yokojō Railway. It was elevated to a full station on 1 September 1937 when the Yokojō Railway was nationalised and the route became the Japanese Government Railways' Yashima Line. After passing through JNR, the Yashima Line was privatised on 1 October 1985 and became the Yuri Kōgen Railway's Chōkai Sanroku Line, at which time the station regained its original name. The station, in what is now Yurihonjō, Akita Prefecture, has been unstaffed since 1971, and a barrier-free replacement building opened in October 2009 after the original was demolished that August.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.