History
Sakakibara-Onsenguchi Station opened on 19 November 1930 as Sada Station (佐田駅) on the Sangu Express Electric Railway, the eastern endpoint of the line's first stage. Mergers in 1941 and 1944 brought it under the Kansai Express Railway and then Kintetsu. It became a limited-express stop and was renamed to its present name on 18 March 1965. On 18 December 1973 a runaway train derailed in the Aoyama Tunnel just east of the station after an ATS failure, killing 25 people. The Mishina to Sakakibara-Onsenguchi double-tracking was completed on the same day. PiTaPa support was added on 1 April 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.