History
Yachiho Station opened on 11 March 1919 as Sakuhozumi Station, simultaneously with the Saku Railway's Haguroshita–Komi extension, handling both passengers and freight. The Saku Railway was nationalised on 1 September 1934 and absorbed into the Ministry of Railways' Komi North Line, later the Koumi Line. The station was renamed Yachiho on 1 October 1959. Freight handling ceased in 1970 and the station became unstaffed in 1991, latterly running under a simple commission arrangement with Sakuho Town. On 12 October 2020, the introduction of a wireless train-control system removed the passing loop, leaving a single platform serving traffic in both directions.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In June 1933 a runaway gasoline railcar left unbraked at Komi rolled downhill into Sakuhozumi, where the stationmaster diverted it onto a siding to spare a student-laden railcar; the buffer was punched through and the station building partly destroyed, injuring one passenger.