History
Samegai Station (CA 82) is on JR Central's Tōkaidō Main Line in Same-i, Maibara, Shiga — the westernmost JR Central-operated station on the Tōkaidō, with the JR West boundary just before Maibara Station. It opened on 21 February 1900 as a general station between Nagaoka (today Ōmi-Nagaoka) and Maibara on the Imperial Government Railways' Tōkaidō Line (renamed Tōkaidō Main Line in 1909). Freight handling ended on 1 March 1972, luggage on 1 February 1984. JR Central took over at privatisation on 1 April 1987. TOICA service started for the Ōgaki side on 2 March 2019 and for the Maibara side on 13 March 2021. One side platform and one island platform; the side platform is fenced off and used only as a freight bypass for occasional special transport (chiefly transformer cargo formally booked as Gifu Freight Terminal-bound).
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Samegai sits on the old Nakasendō post road, and the station forecourt still keeps a feel of the old Edo-era waystation: the Same-i Post Town Folk Museum and the Sansa Stage Wood-Carving Art Museum are within easy walking distance, alongside the protected onsen-fed Same-i Trout Farm.