title: Yasuda Station (Kōchi)
text: # Yasuda Station (Kōchi)
  
  Yasuda Station (安田駅, Yasuda-eki) is a railway station on the Asa Line in Yasuda, Aki District, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the third-sector Tosa Kuroshio Railway with the station number "GN23".
  
  ## Lines
  
  The station is served by the Asa Line and is located 38.7 km from the beginning of the line at Gomen. All Asa Line trains, rapid and local, stop at the station except for those which start or end their trips at Aki.
  
  ## Layout
  
  The station consists of a side platform serving a single elevated track. There is no station building but a shelter with both an enclosed and an open compartment has been set up on the platform. Access to the platform is by means of a flight of steps or an elevator.
  
  ## Adjacent stations
  
  | « | « | Service | » | » |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Asa Line |||||
  | Tōnohama | Tōnohama | Rapid | Tano | Tano |
  | Tōnohama | Tōnohama | Local | Tano | Tano |
  
  ## Station mascot
  
  Each station on the Asa Line features a cartoon mascot character designed by Takashi Yanase, a local cartoonist from Kōchi Prefecture. The mascot for Yasuda Station is a boy wearing a hat with a fish on it. Named Yasuda Ayu-kun (やすだ アユ君), the character is chosen because the nearby Yasudagawa river is known for its Ayu fish.
  
  ## History
  
  The train station was opened on 1 July 2002 by the Tosa Kuroshio Railway as an intermediate station on its track from Gomen to Nahari.
  
  ## Passenger statistics
  
  In fiscal 2011, the station was used by an average of 119 passengers daily.
  
  