History
Yonezu Station opened on 1 July 1926 with the Hekikai Electric Railway, which was folded into the Meitetsu group on 1 May 1944. Freight handling was discontinued in fiscal 1962 and the station was made unstaffed on 16 February 1985. The current building dates from 14 November 2007, when Tranpass automated turnstiles and a centralised station-management link to Nishio Station were introduced. With the timetable revision of 29 June 2008 the stop was downgraded from a regular express stop to a rapid-express call, and is today served by ordinary expresses and locals. Manaca smart-card gates were activated on 11 February 2011.
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
Just south of the platforms the line crosses the Yahagi River on the Yonezu Bridge; the climb to the bridge — 33.3 per mil — is the steepest gradient on the entire Meitetsu Nishio Line.