Sakurambo-Higashine

Known weekday departures: 18/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 18/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:08 / 22:16

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (2)

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 17 April 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Ou Line: no timetable data

• Ou Line: Murayama (Yamagata) ⇄ Tendo

Sakurambo-Higashine Station opened on 1 December 1954 as Kanisawa Station, an unstaffed local stop sited between Jinmachi and Higashine on the Ōu Main Line. With the extension of the Yamagata Shinkansen to Shinjō, the City of Higashine pursued a major land-readjustment project to form a new town centre around a shinkansen stop, and Kanisawa was rebuilt about one kilometre toward Fukushima with a passing loop and a three-storey station building. The relocated stop opened on 4 December 1999 under the present name, chosen to advertise Higashine's standing as Japan's top cherry-producing municipality. Suica service began on 16 March 2024.

The projected number of daily boarding and alighting passengers at the time the station was built was about 1,300, closely matching the actual 2024 fiscal-year figure of 1,324.