History
Yamato Station opened on 20 June 1988 on the JR East Mito Line. Suica IC card service began on 18 November 2001, and a departure-melody system was introduced on 14 March 2009. When the station first opened most daytime local trains passed through without stopping, but since 9 July 2005 every Mito Line train calls here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station was a petitioned station built in the former Yamato village area in the western part of Sakuragawa, taking its name from the village; before it opened there had been no Mito Line station in old Yamato, and for about a year between the abolition of the Tsukuba Railway Tsukuba Line in 1987 and the opening of Yamato itself the village had been without any rail station at all. Sakuragawa City Hall, the former Yamato village office, is the nearest civic building, though it sits about 4 km from the station; since October 2018 Sakuragawa City bus services from the 'Yamato-eki-iriguchi' stop about 200 m from the station have provided access to the city hall annex and to the Kantō Railway Tsukuba-Kita depot.