Yaita

Weekday departures: 38/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 38/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:48 / 22:11

Busiest hour in the available data: 6:00–7:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Tohoku Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Tohoku Main Line: Nozaki (Tochigi) ⇄ Kataoka

Yaita Station opened on 1 October 1886 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 22 October 1929 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 30 June 1959. The station passed to JR East and JR Freight at privatisation on 1 April 1987, and Suica acceptance began on 16 October 2004. A barrier-free footbridge with elevators was completed in March 2010.

The Hariu Tunnel between Yaita and Nozaki, completed in 1887, was dug as an emergency project after trains coming down from the Nasu direction could not stop at Yaita and ran past the station on the steep gradient of the original cutting.