Sayo

Weekday departures: 88/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 88/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:38 / 22:14

Busiest hour in the available data: 6:00–7:00 (7)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Kishin Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Chizu Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Kishin Line: Harima-Tokusa ⇄ Kozuki
• Chizu Line: Hirafuku ⇄ Kuzaki

Sayo Station opened on 30 July 1935 as the terminus of the Japanese Government Railways' Himetsu-tō Line when the line was extended from Mikazuki. Extension to Mimasaka-Emi the next April linked it through to today's Kishin Line, which absorbed the route in October 1936. Freight was withdrawn in 1971 and parcel handling in 1985, and the station became part of JR West at privatisation in April 1987. The arrival of the Chizu Express Chizu Line on 3 December 1994 made it a junction station. Sayo lost its Midori-no-Madoguchi on 30 November 2024 and was fully de-staffed on 1 December 2024.

When Sayo Town merged in March 1955 the local pronunciation shifted from 'sayo' to 'sayou', but the station name's reading was left unchanged, so 佐用駅 is still officially 'Sayo-eki' even in 'Sayou-chō'.