History
Sakidaira Station opened on 1 December 1931 as one of the original stops on the Ōigawa Railway's Ōigawa Main Line, set 37.2 kilometres from the line's starting point at Kanaya in the mountains of central Shizuoka Prefecture. The station was built with a single side platform and a small wooden building, and has always been unattended. Originally serving the timber and farming communities of Kawanehon, it survived the line's transition into a tourist railway noted for its preserved steam services. Operations at the station were suspended on 24 September 2022 after Typhoon 15 caused landslides along the upper Ōigawa valley.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Until the early 1990s the station siding held two retired Seibu B11 battery locomotives and four coaches, abandoned in place rather than scrapped.