History
Ōdara Station opened on 1 September 1962 as a passenger-only unstaffed stop on Japanese National Railways' newly extended Akō Line between Imbe and Higashi-Okayama. The station took the name of an earlier Saidaiji Railway stop of the same kanji that had stood about 400 m to the west until that railway closed shortly before the JNR line arrived. The station passed to JR West when JNR was privatised on 1 April 1987. ICOCA-compatible simplified automatic faregates were installed on 27 July 2007, with IC-card service starting on 1 September 2007. A platform and concourse-area widening, including a second simplified faregate, was completed on 22 January 2009.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station shares its name and kanji with a separate Ōdara Station that stood about 400 m to the west on the Saidaiji Railway until that line was discontinued; the JR stop opened only a few years later on what is now the Akō Line.