History
Tosa-Yamada Station opened on 5 December 1925 as the terminus of the then Kōchi Line of Japanese National Railways when the line was extended north from Kōchi, in what is now Kami, Kōchi Prefecture. It became a through station on 21 June 1930 when the line was extended further to Kakumodani. Freight and automobile-line parcel handling ended on 1 February 1984, and general parcel handling was withdrawn on 3 March 1986. JR Shikoku inherited the station at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR. The staffed Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket counter closed in late 2021 when a Midori-no-Kenbaiki Plus machine took over. Today it is Kami City's main station, and all Dosan Line limited expresses — Nampū from Okayama and Shimanto from Takamatsu — stop here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station's official platform tagline is "the station of Ryūga-dō Cave and Anpanman," reflected in the 2019 footbridge refurbishment that re-clad its walls with Anpanman artwork, and in red- and yellow-liveried Anpanman limited-express services that regularly call here.