History
Bingo-Saijō Station opened on 15 March 1934 as the new terminus of the Shōbara Line out of Bingo-Shōbara. The following year the line was pushed on to Bingo-Ochiai and the station became an intermediate stop. After successive reorganisations the route was renamed the Sanshin Line and then absorbed into the Geibi Line in 1937. Freight handling ended in 1982, the station became contracted operation in 1983, and was made unstaffed under simple-contract management in December 1985. With the 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways operation passed to JR West’s Hiroshima Branch, and one-man train operation began in 1991. The two-platform layout retains a turnback siding toward Miyoshi.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The plaza outside the station displays a driving wheel from a C50-class steam locomotive, installed to mark the centenary of Japanese railways.