History
Minami-sakurai Station opened on 9 December 1930 on the Sōbu Railway Noda Line as Naganuma Temporary Stop, becoming a permanent halt on 3 July 1931. It was moved roughly 400 metres towards Kashiwa on 1 August 1932 and renamed Minami-sakurai. A separate freight station, Yonejima, opened 800 metres further along the line on 6 November 1943; Yonejima's operations were suspended in September 1945 and the two were merged on 23 December 1956, with Minami-sakurai relocating to Yonejima's site. The line passed to Tōbu Railway via the 1944 wartime transport-rationalisation merger, and a footbridge-style station building replaced the wooden depot on 18 February 1983.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Yonejima Station, a freight stop that briefly stood 800 metres east of Minami-sakurai, was formally abolished in 1956 when Minami-sakurai was relocated onto its site — making the present platform the third site the station has occupied.