History
Yasuda Station opened on 10 December 1899 on the Hokuetsu Railway between Kashiwazaki and Hōjō. The Hokuetsu Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1907, and a new station building of mortared steel rails was completed in December 1958 with local funding. Freight ended in 1971, parcels in 1984, and the station passed to JR East at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Platform numbering was introduced in August 2017, and the station was fully destaffed on 1 October 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
In the Meiji and Taishō periods there were two licensed but never-built railway plans to branch off Yasuda toward Takayanagi-machi and Tōkamachi — the Kariwa Railway — both lapsing without rails being laid.