Okayama Station

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Okayama Station building and statue of Momotarō

in Okayama station yard

Okayama Station (岡山駅, Okayama-eki^?) is a railway station located in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The station is operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West).

Okayama station is one of major intersections of railways in Chūgoku region. All trains connecting Honshū and Shikoku via the Great Seto Bridge originate and terminate at Okayama Station.

The station opened on March 18, 1891. Between 1972 and 1975, the station was the western terminus of the Sanyō Shinkansen.

The station serves the following railway lines of JR West:

Sanyō Shinkansen
Sanyō Main Line (including trains to Akō Line and Hakubi Line)
Uno Line (Seto-Ōhashi Line)
Tsuyama Line
Kibi Line

In addition to the JR lines, in front of the station is a tram stop of Okayama Electric Tramway named Okayama-Ekimae Station.

v • d • e Stations of the JR Sanyō Shinkansen Line

Shin-Ōsaka - Shin-Kobe - Nishi-Akashi - Himeji - Aioi - Okayama - Shin-Kurashiki - Fukuyama - Shin-Onomichi - Mihara - Higashi-Hiroshima - Hiroshima - Shin-Iwakuni - Tokuyama - Shin-Yamaguchi - Asa - Shin-Shimonoseki - Kokura - Hakata

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Stations of the JR Sanyō Main Line (Himeji - Mihara)

(JR Kobe Line<<) - Himeji - Agaho - Harima-Katsuhara - Aboshi - Tatsuno - Aioi - Une - Kamigōri - Mitsuishi - Yoshinaga - Wake - Kumayama - Mantomi - Seto - Jōtō - Higashi Okayama - Takashima - Okayama - Nishi Okayama (freight) - Kitanagase - Niwase - Nagashō - Kurashiki - Nishiachi - Shin-Kurashiki - Konkō - Kamogata - Satoshō - Kasaoka - Daimon - Higashi Fukuyama - Fukuyama - Bingo Akasaka - Matsunaga - Higashi Onomichi - Onomichi - Itozaki - Mihara - (>>to Hiroshima)