History
Sakae Station (Okayama) stands on the site of the former Sakaemachi marshalling yard, which the city of Kurashiki had opened in the 1960s and which Mizushima Rinkai Railway took over on 1 April 1970. The yard was abolished on 29 February 1984 to make way for the new Kurashiki Freight Terminal, and Sakae opened as a passenger station on 3 March 1986. It was elevated onto a viaduct on 7 September 1992.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Because the station occupies the spacious footprint of the abolished marshalling yard, it is unusually roomy for a single-platform stop; before the 1992 elevation it had two relative platforms and a central passing track that allowed trains to meet, but the viaduct cut this back to one track.