Saku

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

Saku Station opened on 8 November 1922 as a general station, when the Ministry of Railways completed the Teshio Line section between Otoineppu and Ponpira (today's Teshio-Nakagawa). The line was renamed Teshio South, then Teshio, before being merged into the Sōya Main Line on 1 April 1930. Freight handling ended in 1982, parcels in 1984, and ticket staff were withdrawn on 10 November 1984; the introduction of CTC signalling in 1986 removed the last operating staff. After the 1987 privatisation the old building was pulled down in September 1990, and Nakagawa Town's replacement, which incorporates the Saku Furusato Denshōkan local-heritage hall, was inaugurated in January 1991. From April 2021 the town has maintained the station.

The current building doubles as the Saku Furusato Densho-kan heritage hall, displaying a painting of the former station, an ammonite fossil found locally, and pictures of horse-drawn sleighs.