History
Sakashita Station opened on 1 August 1908 as the temporary terminus of the government-built line extended from Nakatsugawa, in what is now the city of Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture. The line was extended onward to Mitsuno (now Nagiso) on 15 July 1909, and the station became part of the Chūō Main Line proper in May 1911. Freight handling ended in 1970 and parcel handling in 1985. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways it passed to JR Central, and on 1 October 2012 operations were contracted out to the city of Nakatsugawa. In the JNR era Sakashita marked the boundary between the Nagoya and Nagano railway-management administrations.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Even though Sakashita's platforms can physically host through-running services to Nagoya, since the March 2022 timetable revision every stopping train here either starts or ends its run at Nakatsugawa, one stop away.