History
Higashi-Okayama Station opened on 18 March 1891 as Nagaoka Station on the Sanyo Railway's Mitsuishi-Okayama section, 136.1 kilometres from Kobe. It was renamed Saidaiji Station on 1 January 1906, nationalised when the Sanyo Railway was bought by the state in December 1906, and renamed Higashi-Okayama on 20 March 1961. The Akō Line section to Imbe opened on 1 September 1962 with the station as its nominal terminus, although Akō Line services through-run via the Sanyo Main Line to Okayama. Freight handling ceased on 1 November 1986 and the station passed to JR West at the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. The station has three platforms serving four tracks with both north and south concourses, plus an elevator added in 2004.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until the Akō Line opened in 1962, the surrounding area was also served by the Saidaiji Railway's Zaita Station; its former site became car and bicycle parking in the 1980s.