History
Sakakita Station opened on 3 November 1927 in the village of Chikuhoku, Higashichikuma District, Nagano Prefecture, as a station on the Shinonoi Line. It came under the control of JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of the Japanese National Railways. The station sits 40.9 km from the line terminus at Shiojiri and is operated as a kan-i itaku (locally commissioned) facility, with one island and one side platform serving three tracks connected to the station building by a footbridge. Station numbering was introduced on the line from February 2025, assigning Sakakita the code SN10.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.