Higashi-Okayama

Weekday departures: 142/day · Sat & holiday departures: 142/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:24 / 23:22

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (9)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• JR Sanyō Main Line: Jyoto ⇄ Takashima
• JR Akō Line: Ōdara

Higashi-Okayama Station opened on 18 March 1891 as Nagaoka Station on the Sanyo Railway's Mitsuishi-Okayama section, 136.1 kilometres from Kobe. It was renamed Saidaiji Station on 1 January 1906, nationalised when the Sanyo Railway was bought by the state in December 1906, and renamed Higashi-Okayama on 20 March 1961. The Akō Line section to Imbe opened on 1 September 1962 with the station as its nominal terminus, although Akō Line services through-run via the Sanyo Main Line to Okayama. Freight handling ceased on 1 November 1986 and the station passed to JR West at the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. The station has three platforms serving four tracks with both north and south concourses, plus an elevator added in 2004.

Until the Akō Line opened in 1962, the surrounding area was also served by the Saidaiji Railway's Zaita Station; its former site became car and bicycle parking in the 1980s.