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