History
Yuya-Onsen Station opened on 1 February 1923 as the Yuya Signal Stop of the private Hōraiji Railway when its line between Ōmi and Mikawa-Kawai entered service, with a railway-run inn attached. The line was nationalised on 1 August 1943, forming the new Iida Line, and the halt was upgraded to Yuya Station. Parcel handling ended in December 1971 and the station was destaffed in April 1985. The 1987 JNR privatisation transferred it to Central Japan Railway Company, and on 14 December 1991 it was renamed Yuya-Onsen at the expense of Hōrai-chō and the local hot-spring promotion association in order to advertise the nearby resort. The wooden station building was demolished in summer 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1991 rename from Yuya to Yuya-Onsen was a marketing move paid for by the local town and the hot-spring promotion association in order to draw attention to the nearby resort.