Yaita

Weekday departures: 38/day · Sat & holiday departures: 38/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:48 / 22:11

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (3)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• Tōhoku Main Line: Nozaki (Tochigi) ⇄ Kataoka

Yaita Station opened on 1886-10-01 when the Nippon Railway completed the line between Utsunomiya and Nishi-Nasuno. Nationalisation in November 1906 and the 1909 line-naming reform placed it on the Tohoku Main Line. On 1929-10-22 the Shimotsuke Electric Railway (later Tobu's Yaita Line) reached the station and inaugurated through running with Tobu's Shimo-Imaichi, but the Yaita Line was closed on 1959-06-30. The station passed to JR East and JR Freight at privatisation on 1987-04-01, and Suica acceptance began on 2004-10-16. A barrier-free footbridge with elevators was completed in March 2010.

The Hario Tunnel between Yaita and Nozaki, completed in 1887, was dug as an emergency project after trains descending the original cutting toward Yaita could not stop in time and routinely overran the platform.