Station

Yakushido (Akita)

薬師堂

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Yakushido (Akita)
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Yakushidō Station opened on 1 August 1922 as the Yakushidō signal stop on the privately operated Yokojō Railway. It was elevated to a full station on 1 September 1937 when the Yokojō Railway was nationalised and the route became the Japanese Government Railways' Yashima Line. After passing through JNR, the Yashima Line was privatised on 1 October 1985 and became the Yuri Kōgen Railway's Chōkai Sanroku Line. The station, in what is now Yurihonjō, Akita Prefecture, has been unstaffed since 1971, and a barrier-free replacement building opened in October 2009 after the original was demolished that August.

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