Ōdara

Weekday departures: 72/day · Sat & holiday departures: 72/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:28 / 23:26

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (5)

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• JR Akō Line: Higashi-Okayama ⇄ Saidaiji

Ōdara Station opened on 1 September 1962 as a passenger-only unstaffed stop on Japanese National Railways' newly extended Akō Line between Imbe and Higashi-Okayama. The station took the name of an earlier Saidaiji Railway stop of the same kanji that had stood about 400 m to the west until that railway closed shortly before the JNR line arrived. The station passed to JR West when JNR was privatised on 1 April 1987. ICOCA-compatible simplified automatic faregates were installed on 27 July 2007, with IC-card service starting on 1 September 2007. A platform and concourse-area widening, including a second simplified faregate, was completed on 22 January 2009.

The station shares its name and kanji with a separate Ōdara Station that stood about 400 m to the west on the Saidaiji Railway until that line was discontinued; the JR stop opened only a few years later on what is now the Akō Line.