is a passenger

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

located in the city of

Sōja file:Bitchu Kokubunji, zenkei.jpg, 270px, Bitchū Kokubun-ji is a Cities of Japan, city located in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 69,428 and a population density of 330 persons per km2. The total area of the ...

Okayama Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Okayama Prefecture has a population of 1,826,059 (1 February 2025) and has a geographic area of 7,114 Square kilometre, km2 (2,746 sq mi). Okayama Prefecture ...

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

. It is jointly operated by the

West Japan Railway Company , also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, ...

(JR West) and the third sector transportation company,

Ibara Railway Company is a city located in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 37,835 in 16,677 households and a population density of 160 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Geography Ibara is located in west-central O ...

Lines

Sōja Station is served by the

Hakubi Line The is a railway line operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) in the mountainous area of the Chūgoku region of Japan. It begins at the south end of Okayama Prefecture at Kurashiki Station in Kurashiki, passing through Niimi Station ...

, and is located 10.7 kilometers from the

terminus Terminus may refer to: Ancient Rome *Terminus (god), a Roman deity who protected boundary markers Transport *Terminal train station or terminus, a railway station serving as an end destination *Bus terminus, a bus station serving as an end des ...

of the line at and 26.6 kilometers from . It is also the northern terminus of the 20.4 kilometer Kibi Line from Okayama and the 41.7 kilometer

Ibara Railway Ibara Line The is a Japanese railway line between Sōja Station, Sōja and Kannabe Station, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Fukuyama. It is the only railway line operated by the . History Japanese National Railways started the construction of the line in 1966, but fin ...

from .

Station layout

The station consists of one

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms, ...

with a notch to enable it to serve two tracks, and two

island platform An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...

s, connected by an elevated station building. The JR portion of the station is staffed.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

, -Ibara Railway

History

Sōja Station was opened on February 17, 1925 as . It was renamed on November 1, 1959. With the privatization of the

Japan National Railways The , abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pre ...

(JNR) on April 1, 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company. The Ibara Railway connected to the station on January 11, 1999.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 3506 passengers daily.Numerical National Land Information Passenger Number Data by Station
- Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, September 2020

Surrounding area

* Sōja City Hall * Sōja Municipal Sōja Nishi Junior High School * Sōja Municipal Sōja Chuo Elementary School

References

External links

Sōja Station from JR-Odekake.net

Ibara Railway home page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Soja Station Hakubi Line Ibara Railway Ibara Line Kibi Line Railway stations in Okayama Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1925 Sōja, Okayama