Yasu Station is in Yasu, Shiga Prefecture. West Japan Railway Company (JR West) runs it. It opened on 16 June 1891.
History
The station opened on 16 June 1891 as a new station on the national railway between Yawata Station (now Ōmi-Hachiman Station) and Kusatsu Station. It handled passengers and freight. On 1 April 1895 the line was given its name, and the station became part of the Tōkaidō Line.
On 1 September 1966 the Yasu sub-office of the Takatsuki Electric Train District opened, and Yasu storage tracks for electric trains came into use. The Yasu Electric Train District was completed on 1 March 1970 with storage tracks. Freight handling ended on 1 February 1972, and parcel handling ended on 15 March 1972. In January 1973 the station building was rebuilt as an elevated station, the second station building.
On 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West. On 13 March 1988 the Biwako Line name came into use with the naming of the route. Automatic ticket gates came into use on 11 March 1998. ICOCA became usable on 1 November 2003.
On 1 October 2006 an operations management system for the JR Kyoto and Kobe lines was introduced. Station public announcements were renewed on 18 March 2007. On 14 March 2009, with the timetable revision, the canopies over platforms 2 and 3 were extended. On 12 March 2015 an arrival melody was introduced with the revision of the train entry warning sounds. Station numbering came into use on 17 March 2018. The north exit station square was completed on 1 November 2018.
On 13 March 2021 some Haruka limited express trains, which run only in the morning and evening, began starting and ending here instead of at Maibara. On 20 November 2021 a Midori ticket machine plus was installed. The Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed on 30 November 2021.
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