History
Yasoba Station opened on 27 January 1952 as an additional stop added to the existing Yosan Line, then operated by Japanese National Railways. It became a JR Shikoku station with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 and was later assigned the number Y07. The station sits 18.6 km from Takamatsu and serves only local trains, including a handful of Dosan Line services that begin and end at Takamatsu despite Tadotsu being the Dosan Line's official starting point. Two opposed side platforms serve two tracks; the station is unstaffed, has no station building, and is accessed by ramps and an at-grade level crossing between platforms.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Before electrification was completed shortly before JR's launch, Yasoba was treated as little more than a flag stop; the down platform was a stack of wooden sleepers, and travelling the short distance from Yasoba to Sanuki-Shioya by direct train within the same day was once impossible.