History
Yakusa Station opened on 31 January 1988 as part of the Aichi Loop Railway when the third-sector operator's Shin-Toyota–Kōzōji link was inaugurated. The Aichi Rapid Transit's Tōbu Kyūryō Line (Linimo) opened a paired station on 6 March 2005 in time for the 2005 World Exposition (Expo 2005), making Yakusa the eastern terminus of the urban maglev. Both station names were temporarily prefixed with "Banpaku" (Expo) from 10 October 2004; the Aichi Loop reverted to plain Yakusa on 1 October 2005 and Linimo followed on 1 April 2006. During Expo 2005 the station handled overflow Expo traffic with temporary platforms and bus connections, scaled back after the event closed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Aichi Loop platforms here are 10-car-length, a legacy of the Expo Shuttle services during the 2005 World Exposition; current scheduled trains are only four cars long.