Station

Yagiyama Zoological Park

八木山動物公園

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Yagiyama Zoological Park
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Timetable information

Weekday departures: 140/day · Sat & holiday departures: 112/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:35 / 23:47

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (11)


Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Yagiyama Zoological Park Station opened on 6 December 2015 as the western terminus of the Sendai Subway Tōzai Line, carrying the station number T01. It sits in Yagiyama-Honmachi in Taihaku Ward, beneath the planned Kawauchi-Hatatate road, and is named for the adjacent Sendai Yagiyama Zoological Park. At a rail level of 136.4 metres, it ranked at opening as Japan's highest-altitude underground station — a Japan Subway Association designation it lost when the Hokushin Kyūkō line transferred to the Kobe Subway in June 2020, putting Tanigami Station first overall, though Yagiyama retains the title among purely underground stations. A seven-level (five above ground, two below) integrated parking and park-and-ride structure capable of holding 519 vehicles adjoins the station, topped by an observation deck named "Yagiyama Teppen Hiroba".

Notes

All eastbound services on the Tōzai Line begin here — arriving trains turn straight around to head for Arai, the line's eastern terminus.

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