History
Osakabe Station opened on 11 December 1930 with the extension of the Ministry of Railways' Sakubi Line (now the Kishin Line) between Chūgoku-Katsuyama and Iwayama. At opening the location was Osakabe-chō, Atetsu District. On 10 October 1936 the Sakubi Line was absorbed into the Kishin Line. Freight was discontinued on 12 March 1973 and parcel handling on 14 March 1985. The station was put on simplified-agency status on 1 November 1986, then taken over by JR West at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. The simplified-agency contract was terminated on 1 April 2011 and the station became fully unstaffed; the wooden station building still stands and hosts a retail store.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The English Wikipedia article cites an average of 54 daily passengers at Osakabe in fiscal 2019. Its station-front square features a paraglider-shaped streetlight, and the wooden station building doubles as a small local retail outlet.