History
Sakaki Station opened on 15 August 1888 as a station on the state-railway Shin'etsu Line in present-day Sakaki, Nagano Prefecture. Carload freight other than at the dedicated siding ended on 22 September 1978 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984. The station passed to JR East and JR Freight at the 1987 JNR privatisation, and on 1 October 1997 the JR East passenger operation was transferred to the third-sector Shinano Railway with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen. A high-speed petroleum-traffic service began on 23 March 2002. The station was destaffed on weekends from 1 April 2022, the ticket window closed on 13 March 2026, Suica service began on 14 March 2026, and the station became fully unstaffed on 1 April 2026.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
A preserved Series 169 three-car formation has been displayed on a siding at Sakaki since 2013, and the JR Freight operation here still moves two daily petroleum return-trips to Negishi via a private siding to the ENEOS Hokushin oil depot.