History
Tagi Station opened on 11 July 1915 when the San'in Main Line was extended from Oda to Iwami-Ōda (now Ōdashi) in what is today the city of Izumo in Shimane Prefecture. Freight handling was discontinued on 1 October 1962, parcel handling on 20 June 1977 (when the station was converted to simplified delegation), and operations passed to JR West with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. A new station building, sharing space with a community-bus terminal and adjacent park, was completed on 16 March 2005. The single island platform sits with the building on its inland side, and the station is now an unstaffed stop managed from Matsue. In January 2016 a major landslip on the inland-side track temporarily disabled passing operations until restoration on 30 July of the same year.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Oda - Tagi section is a famous photography spot — the commemorative orange card issued when the Kiha 181 series was retired from the San'in region carries a photograph of a train running through this stretch.