Station

Mikawa Yatsuhashi

三河八橋

Mikawa Yatsuhashi
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Train service

Weekday departures: 109/day · Sat & holiday departures: 107/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:45 / 23:42

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (8)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Mikawa Yatsuhashi Station is a Meitetsu Mikawa Line station in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, located 3.8 kilometres from the line's terminus at Chiryū. It opened on 5 July 1920 as a stop on the privately operated Mikawa Railway, which merged into the Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) on 1 June 1941. Freight operations ended on 11 May 1961, and the station building was rebuilt on 16 October 1963. The centralised management system and Tranpass prepaid card arrived on 1 October 2003. The platform was switched to a temporary alignment on 13 October 2007 for grade separation, and the new 1.63-kilometre elevated alignment around the station opened on 12 December 2009. The manaca IC card became available on 11 February 2011, and the east-side station plaza opened on 1 December 2023.

Notes

The elevated station's exterior is decorated with a purple stripe and inverted triangles representing the kakitsubata iris, a reference to the famous Yatsuhashi iris garden at the nearby Muryōju-ji temple linked to the poet Ariwara no Narihira.

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