Station

Yasoba

八十場

Yasoba
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Train service

Weekday departures: 62/day · Sat & holiday departures: 62/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:28 / 23:56

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (6)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

Adjacent stations

Location

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.

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.

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