History
Sakamachi Station opened on 1 November 1914 with the extension of the Murakami Line — now part of the Uetsu Main Line — to Murakami. The station became a junction in August 1931 when the Yonesaka West Line, today the Yonesaka Line, reached Echigo-Shimoseki. A new reinforced-concrete station building, partly funded by Arakawa Town through railway bonds, opened in November 1963. The station passed to JR East with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. Yonesaka Line services east of Imaizumi have been suspended since the August 2022 rainstorms damaged the station and the surrounding right-of-way.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The plaza in front of Sakamachi Station displays a driving wheel from a D51 steam locomotive, a relic of the former engine depot once attached to the station.