Sakaida

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Sakaida Station opened on 1 November 1917 on the Rikuu East Line in what is now the town of Mogami, Yamagata, 55.3 kilometres from the line's terminus at Kogota. Small-lot freight and parcel handling ended on 30 November 1971, and the station was fully unstaffed from 7 March 1983. It became part of East Japan Railway Company (JR East) on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways. It now has a single platform serving one bidirectional track, the track on the other side having been removed, and the station sits in a cutting.

Honshū's central watershed runs through the small square just outside Sakaida Station, where a flat divide visibly sends one stream toward the Sea of Japan via the Mogami River system and another toward the Pacific via the Kitakami River system — a feature unusual enough that in May 2015 its explanatory board was replaced by a monument of locally quarried Mogami stone.