Station

Sakashita

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Sakashita
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Timetable information

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

Location

History

Sakashita Station opened on 1 August 1908 as the terminus of the government-built line extended from Nakatsugawa, in what is now the city of Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture. The line was extended onward to Midono (now Nagiso) on 15 July 1909, and the station became part of the Chūō Main Line proper in May 1911. Freight handling ended in 1970 and parcel handling in 1985. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways it passed to JR Central, and on 1 October 2012 operations were contracted out to the city of Nakatsugawa. In the JNR era Sakashita marked the boundary between the Nagoya and Nagano railway-management administrations.

Notes

Sakashita once had scheduled through services toward Nagoya, but since the March 2022 timetable revision every train that stops here begins or ends its run at Nakatsugawa.

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