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Okayama Station in December 2017
General information
Location	Kita-ku, Okayama,Okayama Prefecture Japan
Coordinates	34°39′59″N133°55′07″E / 34.66639°N 133.91861°E /34.66639; 133.91861
Operated by	JR West
Line(s)	San'yō Shinkansen LUno Line MSeto-Ōhashi Line NAkō Line SWSan'yō Line TTsuyama Line UKibi Line VHakubi Line
Platforms	2island platforms (Shinkansen) 4 island platforms (Conventional lines)
Tracks	4 (Shinkansen) 10 (conventional lines)
Connections	Okayama Electric Tramway
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Other information
Website	Official website
History
Opened	18 March 1891; 134 years ago (1891-03-18)
Passengers
2020	46,763 daily
Services Preceding station JR West Following station Fukuyama towardsHakata San'yō Shinkansen Mizuho Himeji towardsShin-Ōsaka San'yō Shinkansen Sakura San'yō Shinkansen Nozomi Shin-Kurashiki towardsHakata San'yō Shinkansen Hikari Shin-Kurashiki towardsHakata orHakataminami San'yō Shinkansen Kodama Aioi towardsShin-Ōsaka
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Okayama Station (岡山駅,Okayama-eki) is a major railway station inKita-ku, Okayama,Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The station is operated byWest Japan Railway Company (JR West).

Okayama Station is one of the major intersections of railways in theChūgoku region. All trains connectingHonshū andShikoku via theGreat Seto Bridge originate and terminate here.

The station is served by the following JR West lines:

• Sanyō Shinkansen
• San'yō Main Line (including trains toAkō Line andHakubi Line)
• Uno Line (Seto-Ōhashi Line)
• Tsuyama Line
• Kibi Line

In addition to the JR lines, atram stop of theOkayama Electric Tramway named Okayama-Ekimae is located in front of the JR station.

The Shinkansen platforms are located on the 3rd level of the station and has 2 island platforms that serve 4 tracks, whilst the conventional lines on the ground floor have 4 island platforms that serve 10 tracks. All platforms. Platforms 5 and 7 are bay platforms near tracks 6 and 8. In 2004, the Tsuyama and Kibi Line platforms (Platforms 16 and 17 at the time) were moved over to the west side of Okayama Station due to renovations, and the shape and size of all platforms have changed since 2004.

The station building is one of the few stations whose front exit is the Shinkansen exit. It was converted to a bridge in October 2006, and its main functions, including Shinkansen communication, are installed on the second floor. In addition, the west exit station building was abolished due to the construction of the east-west connecting road, and the ticket gates were concentrated on the second floor and underground except for some. Many of the long concourses under the elevated tracks that once existed are now commercial facilities.

This station has a station master that is also the station master for the Sanyo Main Line stations ofKitanagase andNiwase, the Uno Line Stations ofŌmoto throughKuguhara, the Kibi Line stations ofBizen-Mikado throughBitchū-Takamatsu, and the Tsuyama Line stations ofHōkaiin throughFukuwatari.

Prior to this, Kitanagase and Niwase stations were controlled byKurashiki andNakashō stations, Omoto through Kuguhara Stations on the Uno line were controlled byKojima station, Each station on the Kibi Line was managed by the Bitchu Railway Department (after the abolition, Niimi Station [management station] and Soja Station [district station]), but it was changed from the policy of matching with the administrative area in principle.

Platform No	Line Name	Direction	Notes
1・2	WSan'yō Line	forKurashiki・Fukuyama・Hiroshima	Used by RapidSun Liner services
	VHakubi Line	for Kurashiki ・Bitchū-Takahashi・Niimi・Yonago	Used by Limited ExpressYakumo servies
3・4	S San'yō Line	forWake・Himeji・Tottori	Used by Limited ExpressSuper Inaba services
	NAkō Line	forSaidaiji・Banshū-Akō
5	MSeto-Ōhashi Line LUno Line	forChayamachi ・Kojima・Takamatsu・Uno	Used by some Local and Rapid services
6・8			Used by RapidMarine Liner, Limited Express, and the Sleeper Limited ExpressSunrise Seto services
7			Used by all local trains and some temporary rapid services
9	TTsuyama Line	forFukuwatari ・Tsuyama	Used by Local and RapidKotobuki services
10	UKibi Line (Momotaro Line)	forBitchū-Takamatsu・Soja
21・22	San'yō Shinkansen	forHiroshima・Hakata・Kagoshima-Chūō
23・24		forShin-Ōsaka・Nagoya・Tokyo

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

Prior to the timetable revision on March 15, 2025, two dailyUzushio services also ran between Okayama andTokushima.^[1]

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