Yawata

History

Yawata Station opened on 1 June 1972 on the Meitetsu Toyokawa Line at Kanaiba, Yawata-chō, Toyokawa, Aichi, when three earlier stations — Yawataguchi, Ichida and Suwa-shindō — were consolidated into a single new station between the former Yawataguchi and Ichida sites. Ichida Station was abolished outright; Yawataguchi and Suwa-shindō were demoted to signal stations and kept in place. The signal-block direction at Yawataguchi was switched from right-hand to left-hand running on 15 December 1982. From 1995, in preparation for the line's elevation works to cross over the Higashi-Mikawa Ring Road, the station was diverted to temporary tracks and a passing loop was added; the elevated station was completed on 14 December 1996, at which date Yawataguchi signal station was abolished. Automated ticket gates and ticket vending machines entered service on 1 December 2005 and a consolidated remote-management system with Transpass began on 14 December 2005. The manaca IC card came into use on 11 February 2011 and Transpass was withdrawn on 29 February 2012. In 2013, barrier-free works installed an elevator and raised the platform.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.

Notes

Yawata was historically the least-used station on the Toyokawa Line after Inariguchi, but ridership has climbed twice in succession — first when Toyokawa City Hospital relocated near the station in 2013, and again when AEON Mall Toyokawa opened on 4 April 2023.