Timetable information
Weekday departures: 76/day · Sat & holiday departures: 76/day
First / last departure (weekday): 5:24 / 24:16 (00:16 next day)
Busiest hour: 10:00–11:00 (7)
0:00 ─ 23:00
Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.
Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.
Adjacent stations
- Kisei Line: Fujinami (Wakayama) ⇄ Hirokawa Beach
Location
History
Yuasa opened on 14 August 1927 as Kii-Yuasa Station (紀伊湯浅駅) when the Japanese Government Railways' Kisei West Line was extended south from Fujinami. It served as the line's terminus for just over a year until the track was pushed on to Kii-Yura on 28 October 1928. An earlier Yuasa Station opened in 1915 by the Arita Railway in a different part of town was suspended as a wartime non-essential route in 1944 and abolished in 1959. The present station took its current name on 1 March 1965 and passed to JR West at the 1 April 1987 JNR privatisation. ICOCA fare cards launched on 17 December 2016 and a new station building called Yuasa Ekikura opened in 2020.
Notes
The 2020 station building, named 'Yuasa Ekikura' by a Wakayama Prefectural Taikyū High School student in a public competition, doubles as a tsunami evacuation refuge with capacity for about 800 people on its third floor and roof.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: Asturio Cantabrio · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-22