History
Kuroi Station opened on 15 July 1899 at Kuroi, Kasuga-chō, Tamba, Hyōgo Prefecture, as a station on the Hankaku Railway when the line was extended from Kashiwara to Fukuchiyama-Minamiguchi (the former Fukuchi Station, now demolished). The Hankaku Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1907, the Hankaku Line was designated under the 12 October 1909 line-name regulation, and on 1 March 1912 the section south of Fukuchiyama was renamed the Fukuchiyama Line. The station building was rebuilt in June 1956. Freight handling ended on 1 April 1973, parcel handling on 14 March 1985, and the station passed to JR West at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. From 1 April 1992 it came under the Sasayamaguchi Railway Sub-Bureau, returning to Fukuchiyama Branch direct management at the sub-bureau's abolition on 1 June 2009 (becoming a station managed by Sasayamaguchi). The ICOCA IC card became usable on 13 March 2021, and on 1 July 2021 station operations were transferred from JR West Fukuchiyama Mentec to JR West Transport Service. On 1 October 2022 the line came under the Fukuchiyama Management Division of the Kinki Statistical Headquarters, with Kuroi managed by Fukuchiyama. On 20 February 2024 a Midori ticket machine was installed; the ticket window closed on 15 March 2024, and the station became fully unstaffed on 1 April 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Because of another Kuroi Station on the Shin'etsu Main Line in Niigata (different railway, also written 黒井), tickets originating from this Hyōgo station carry the disambiguating prefix "(福) 黒井" — "Fuku" for Fukuchiyama Line — just as Nii Station on the Banta Line carries "(播) 新井."