History
Yasu Station opened on 1 July 2002 as an intermediate stop on the Tosa Kuroshio Railway's Asa Line between Gomen and Nahari, in what is now the city of Kōnan, Kōchi Prefecture. All Asa Line trains — both rapid and local — call here. The elevated station has a single island platform serving two tracks, with no station building; benches under the elevated structure form an open-air waiting area, and a lift links street level with the platform. The station mascot, a mermaid called Yasu Ningyo-chan, recalls the annual "Miss Mermaid Contest" held at Yasu's nearby marine festival. The station's provisional name during planning was "Tei", borrowed from a former Tosa Electric Railway stop nearby.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station's mermaid mascot was inspired by the annual "Miss Mermaid Contest" held at the Ya-Shii Park marine festival just south of the station.