History
Kōnotori-no-sato Station opened on 15 December 1929 as Tajima-Mie Station with the inauguration of the Hōtoyo Line between Toyooka and Kumihama, in what is today the city of Toyooka, Hyōgo Prefecture. Freight handling was discontinued on 1 March 1961, and parcel handling ended on 1 October 1970, after which the station was unstaffed. Operation passed from Japanese National Railways to JR West at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and on 1 April 1990 to Kitakinki Tango Railway with the rest of the Miyazu Line. On 1 April 2015 the line was handed over to Willer Trains, and the station was renamed Kōnotori-no-sato.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1930 station building is the only one on the Miyazu Line that has survived from the line's opening era; the local volunteer group later converted its former office into a soba café called Poppoya.