Wakimoto

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Wakimoto Station opened on 8 November 1914 as a stop on the Japanese Government Railways Funakawa Light Railway, the predecessor of the present Oga Line, serving the village of Wakimoto. Freight handling continued into the 21st century: a private siding connecting via pipeline to the Sarugawa oil field carried Japan's only domestic crude-oil rail movement to Funakawa-kō Station until road tankers replaced it on 30 March 2001. Following JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station operated under JR East, becoming fully unstaffed on 1 April 2011. The original 1914 wooden building was finally replaced by a 9.8-square-metre wooden structure inspired by Mount Kanpū on 29 November 2016. Suica acceptance began on 27 May 2023.

Until 2001 the station handled what was at the time Japan's only rail-hauled crude-oil traffic, fed by a pipeline from the Sarugawa oil field to a dedicated siding here.