History
Daianji Station opened on 25 February 1914 as a temporary stop on the privately held Chūgoku Railway, set up at the request of a local merchant who was also a Chūgoku Railway shareholder. It was upgraded to a full halt (teiryūjō) on 1 July 1915 and to an official station on 23 November 1928. A new tatami-mat dealer named Mano extended the platform in 1925 specifically to handle tatami-rush shipments. The Chūgoku Railway's railway operations were nationalised on 1 June 1944, making the stop part of JNR's Kibi Line, and ownership passed to JR West with the 1987 break-up of JNR. ICOCA-compatible simplified faregates were installed on 26 July 2007, and IC-card travel began the following 1 September.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although the station shares the kanji name 大安寺 with Okayama Prefectural Okayama-Daianji Secondary School, the school is about 1 km away and is more conveniently reached from Kita-Nagase Station on the Sanyō Main Line.