History
Kenchōmae Station opened on 18 June 1985 as Yamate (Kenchōmae) Station on the Kobe Municipal Subway Seishin-Yamate Line. It was renamed to its present name on 20 March 1993, and from 9 July of that year a new rapid service began running on the line, with the rapid bypassing this station. The Great Hanshin Earthquake of 17 January 1995 forced the line out of service; trains resumed serving Kenchōmae on 16 February 1995, and the rapid that had been suspended since the quake was formally abolished on 21 July 1995. The station, beneath Shimoyamate-dōri in Chūō-ku, Kobe, is a two-level underground station with a concourse and ticket gates on the first basement level and platforms on the second and third basements; its decorative theme is the foreign-merchant houses of the city's Ijinkan district.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.