Sakamachi

Imaizumi – Sakamachi: suspended from 3 August 2022 Check the operator for replacement transport stops and times. Full details: JR Yonesaka Line →

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Sakamachi Station opened on 1 November 1914 with the extension of the Murakami Line — now part of the Uetsu Main Line — to Murakami. The station became a junction in August 1931 when the Yonesaka West Line, today the Yonesaka Line, reached Echigo-Shimoseki. A new reinforced-concrete station building, whose entire construction cost was underwritten by Arakawa Town through railway bonds, opened in November 1963. The station passed to JR East with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. Yonesaka Line services between Sakamachi and Imaizumi have been suspended since the August 2022 rainstorms damaged the station and the surrounding right-of-way.

The plaza in front of Sakamachi Station displays a driving wheel from a D51 steam locomotive, a relic of the former engine depot once attached to the station.