History
Yagoto Station opened on 18 March 1977 in Shōwa-ku, Nagoya, as the original eastern terminus of the Nagoya Municipal Subway Tsurumai Line, then running only from Fushimi. Initial service used only four cars at one end of platform 2 while the rest of the platform space served as a temporary depot. The Tsurumai Line was extended onward to Akaike on 1 October 1978, making Yagoto a through station, and on 6 October 2004 the Meijō Line's Nagoya University – Aratamabashi extension established it as an interchange between the two lines. Movable platform-edge doors entered service on the Meijō Line platforms in December 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Before the station opened, philanthropist Kiyoichi Kuwayama paid out of pocket for one of the station entrances and the connecting underground passage, which were handed over to the city on 15 March 1977.