History
Sakane Station opened on 10 February 1930 with the construction of the Sanshin Line between Yagami and Bitchū-Kōjirō, on what is today the Geibi Line, 3.9 km from the line's terminus at Bitchū-Kōjirō and 10.3 km from Niimi. With the privatisation of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to West Japan Railway Company. The station has a single ground-level side platform serving a bi-directional track, with no station building, and an enclosed waiting room was added in 2004. The unstaffed halt averaged just two boarding passengers daily in fiscal 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Fiscal 2019 boarding ridership averaged just two passengers per day, making Sakane one of the quieter halts on the Geibi Line.