[3] Eastbound local trains which serve the station terminate at Matsuyama.

Connections with other services are needed to travel further east of Matsuyama on the line.

[2][5][6][3] Yawatahama Station was opened on 6 February 1939 as the western terminus of the then Yosan Mainline which had been extended westwards from Iyo-Hirano.

With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Shikoku.

[7][8] Media related to Yawatahama Station at Wikimedia Commons Branches (via Uchiko Line)