Sōgo

Weekday departures: 34/day · Sat & holiday departures: 34/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:09 / 22:23

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (4)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• JR Akō Line: Bizen-Fukukawa ⇄ Hinase

Sōgo Station opened on 1 April 1962 on the Japanese National Railways’ Akō Line between Bizen-Fukukawa and Hinase stations, in what is now the Hinase-chō Sōgo district of Bizen, Okayama Prefecture. It was built as a petition station with construction costs borne entirely by the local community and operated from the outset as an unstaffed diesel-passenger halt. The single ground-level platform, one face and one track on the Okayama-facing side, lacks a station building and has a noticeable height gap between train and platform because it was never raised. The stop passed to JR West on 1 April 1987 with the breakup of JNR, and ICOCA-compatible IC readers were introduced on 15 September 2018, making it the line’s easternmost station in Okayama Prefecture.

Although the Japanese name 寒河 literally reads “cold river,” the station marks the boundary between JR West’s Chūgoku and Kinki regional headquarters; trains run through, but jurisdictional handover is signed here.