History
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.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
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.