History
Higashi-Soja Station opened on 15 November 1904 as the original Soja Station, with the opening of the Chugoku Railway's Kibi Line, then an intermediate stop on a line that continued west to Tan'i. The old line west of Soja was abolished on 17 February 1925, briefly making it the Kibi Line's terminus; on 7 August 1925 the JNR Hakubi South Line opened to Nishi-Soja (now Soja Station) and the station once again became an intermediate stop. It was renamed Higashi-Soja on 1 October 1959 — a month before Nishi-Soja took on the Soja name itself. The Chugoku Railway's rail operations were nationalised on 1 June 1944, and the station passed to JR West with the 1987 JNR privatisation. It became unstaffed in 2004 and gained ICOCA support in 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.