History
Oka Station opened on 1 April 1968 as a station on the Maruko Line of Japanese National Railways, in what is now the city of Kakuda, Miyagi. Operations transferred to the third-sector Abukuma Express on 1 July 1986. The unattended single-platform station has a small front plaza connected directly to the platform by steps, with no ticket gate or station building. The track curves and a level junction were laid out so a second crossing track could be added later, although the second platform has never been built. The station's slogan, "Town that pioneers tomorrow's space", refers to the nearby Kakuda Space Center.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Track geometry through Oka still includes Y-point preparations for a never-built second crossing platform.