History
Oda Station opened on 21 November 1913 as the temporary terminus of an extension of the San'in Main Line from Izumo-Imaichi (now Izumoshi). The line continued west to Iwami-Ōda (now Ōdashi) on 10 March 1915, making Oda an intermediate stop. Freight handling ended on 7 November 1982 and parcel handling on 14 March 1985, with the station becoming unstaffed the following year. Operations passed from JNR to JR West on 1 April 1987. Around 2001, the San'in Main Line speed-up works removed one of the original island-platform tracks, leaving today's single-platform stop. A new station building incorporating a community-bus terminal opened on 10 February 2005.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Local accounts say the station was originally to be named Taki after its township, but to avoid confusion with neighbouring Tagi the name of an adjoining hamlet — Oda — was used instead.