Kotoden-Yashima Station features a side platform and an island platform serving three tracks. However, only the side platform and one side of the island platform is used in regular service. The station building is located on the eastbound (side) platform, and the two platforms are connected by a level crossing. The station is unmanned.[2]
Kotoden-Yashima Station opened on November 18, 1911 on the Tosan Electric Tramway. On November 1, 1943 it became a station on the Takamatsu-Kotohira Electric Railway.[3] The station building was marked as being a modern industrial heritage on February 6, 2009 by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.[4]
^Kawashima, Ryōzō (2013). 図説: 日本の鉄道 四国・九州ライン 全線・全駅・全配線・第2巻 四国西部エリア [Japan Railways Illustrated. Shikoku and Kyushu. All lines, all stations, all track layouts. Volume 2 Western Shikoku] (in Japanese). Kodansha. pp. 8, 64. ISBN9784062951616.