History
Mikawa Yatsuhashi Station is a Meitetsu Mikawa Line station in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, located 3.8 kilometres from the line's terminus at Chiryū. It opened on 5 July 1920 as a stop on the privately operated Mikawa Railway, which merged into the Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) on 1 June 1941. Freight operations ended on 11 May 1961, and the station building was rebuilt on 16 October 1963. The centralised management system and Tranpass prepaid card arrived on 1 October 2003. The platform was switched to a temporary alignment on 13 October 2007 for grade separation, and the new 1.63-kilometre elevated alignment around the station opened on 12 December 2009. The manaca IC card became available on 11 February 2011, and the east-side station plaza opened on 1 December 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The elevated station's exterior is decorated with a purple stripe and inverted triangles representing the kakitsubata iris, a reference to the famous Yatsuhashi iris garden at the nearby Muryōju-ji temple linked to the poet Ariwara no Narihira.