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Yagoto Station (八事駅, Yagoto-eki) is an underground metro station on the Nagoya Municipal Subway in Shōwa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, operated by the Transportation Bureau City of Nagoya.^[1] The station is located in part of the district of Yagoto.^{[citation needed]}

Lines

Yagoto Station is served by the following Nagoya Municipal Subway lines:

Tsurumai Line (Station number: T15)
Meijō Line (Station number: M20)

It is an interchange station between the Tsurumai Line and the Meijō Line, and is located 15.0 kilometers from the terminus of the Tsurumai Line at Kami-Otai Station, and 17.2 kilometers from the terminus of the Meijō Line at Kanayama Station.

Layout

Yagoto Station has one underground island platform for use by the Tsurumai Line and two underground opposed side platforms for use by the Meijō Line.

Platforms

1	■ Tsurumai Line	for Akaike and Toyotashi
2	■ Tsurumai Line	for Fushimi, Kami-Otai, and Inuyama
3	■ Meijō Line	for Motoyama and Ōzone
4	■ Meijō Line	for Aratama-bashi, Kanayama, and Nagoyakō

Platform 2 of the Tsurumai Line in 2010
Platform 4 of the Meijō Line towards Aratama-bashi and Kanayama in 210

History

Yagoto Station was opened on 18 March 1977 as the initial terminal station for the Tsurumai Line.^[2] The Tsurumai Line was extended to Akaike Station on 1 October 1978. The Meijō Line connected to this station from 6 October 2004.

Notable Locations

Locations nearby include the Shingon Buddhist temple of Kōshō-ji, the Nagoya campus of Chukyo University, and the Yagoto branch of AEON Mall.

References

^ 八事 [Yagoto] (in Japanese). Transportation Bureau City of Nagoya. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
^ 佐藤, 信之 (19 June 2004), 地下鉄の歴史首都圏・中部・近畿圏 (in Japanese), グランプリ出版, ISBN 4-87687-260-0