Saigane

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Saigane Station opened on 21 March 1926 as a stop on what is now the Suigun Line. Its construction was the product of a violent dispute: when survey work in 1921 revealed that no stations were planned for the hamlets on either side of Saigane — those around the present-day Kami-Ogawa and Shimo-Ogawa stations — the residents there attacked the surveying engineer and forced the plan to be changed. Saigane was then dropped in favour of stations on either side, which in turn enraged its own residents, who staged their own attacks on the construction crews and refused to sell land. The Railway Ministry suspended construction altogether, only to face fresh protests from Hitachi-Daigo, and Prime Minister Katō Takaaki ultimately intervened so that stations were built at all three locations. Saigane passed to the JR East network at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR.

Two monuments commemorating the violent 1920s petition disputes were erected in front of the Saigane station building, the first in 1957 and the second in 1961.