History
Yaho Station is a JR East Nambu Line stop in Kunitachi city, Tokyo, 31.6 km from the Kawasaki terminus and numbered JN 23. It opened on 11 December 1929 with the Nambu Railway's Bubaigawara–Tachikawa extension, with the original station building on what is now the south side. The Nambu Railway was nationalised on 1 April 1944, freight and parcels handling were withdrawn in 1958–59, and the Kawasaki–Tachikawa route was fully double-tracked in 1966. The station building was rebuilt over the tracks in 1979, and the stop passed to JR East at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. From 14 March 2015, with Nambu Line rapid services extended to the whole route, rapid trains began passing through.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The reading "Yaho" was chosen by the Nambu Railway at opening because the local pronunciation "Yabo" sounded too close to yabo (vulgar), and the alternative reading has stuck ever since.