Higashi-Yatsuo

Known weekday departures: 19/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 19/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 6:08 / 23:51

Busiest hour (known departures): 6:00–7:00 (2)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• Takayama Line: Etchu-Yatsuo ⇄ Sasazu

Higashi-Yatsuo Station opened on 1 June 1956 as a passenger-only unstaffed halt on JNR's Takayama Main Line, added between Sasazu and Etchū-Yatsuo at the request of residents of the Sugihara district, who had previously needed to walk roughly four kilometres to Etchū-Yatsuo to board a train. The campaign was led by the local women's association, which in 1955 formed a committee for the station's establishment that petitioned JNR together with the town council. It passed to JR West at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and the ageing waiting shelter was rebuilt in 2019. The station consists of a single side platform on an embankment, with a waiting room and toilet but no ticket machine.

Higashi-Yatsuo owes its existence to a petition campaign spearheaded by the Sugihara district's women's association in the mid-1950s; among many similar nationwide requests at the time, theirs was singled out for priority approval by JNR.