History
Yuasa opened on 14 August 1927 as Kii-Yuasa Station (紀伊湯浅駅) when the Japanese Government Railways' Kisei West Line was extended south from Fujinami. It served as the line's terminus for just over a year until the track was pushed on to Kii-Yura on 28 October 1928. An earlier Yuasa Station opened in 1915 by the Arita Railway in a different part of town was suspended as a wartime non-essential route in 1944 and abolished in 1959. The present station took its current name on 1 March 1965 and passed to JR West at the 1 April 1987 JNR privatisation. ICOCA fare cards launched on 17 December 2016 and a new station building called Yuasa Ekikura opened in 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The 2020 station building, named 'Yuasa Ekikura' by a Wakayama Prefectural Taikyū High School student in a public competition, doubles as a tsunami evacuation refuge with capacity for about 800 people on its third floor and roof.