History
Sōgo Station opened on 1 April 1962 on the Japanese National Railways’ Akō Line between Bizen-Fukukawa and Hinase stations, in what is now the Hinase-chō Sōgo district of Bizen, Okayama Prefecture. It was built as a petition station with construction costs borne entirely by the local community and operated from the outset as an unstaffed diesel-passenger halt. The single ground-level platform, one face and one track on the Okayama-facing side, lacks a station building and has a noticeable height gap between train and platform because it was never raised. The stop passed to JR West on 1 April 1987 with the breakup of JNR, and ICOCA-compatible IC readers were introduced on 15 September 2018, making it the line’s easternmost station in Okayama Prefecture.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the Japanese name 寒河 literally reads “cold river,” the station marks the boundary between JR West’s Chūgoku and Kinki regional headquarters; trains run through, but jurisdictional handover is signed here.