Higashi-Okayama

Known weekday departures: 142/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 142/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:24 / 23:22

Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (9)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• JR Sanyo Main Line: Joto (Okayama) ⇄ Takashima
• JR Ako Line: Odara

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 Saiden Station; its former site became car and bicycle parking in the 1980s.