History
Kaibara Station opened on 25 May 1899 as the terminus of the Hankaku Railway extension from Sasayama (now Sasayamaguchi); when the line was extended to Fukuchiyama-minamiguchi on 15 July of the same year it became a through-station. The Hankaku Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1907, and from 1 March 1912 the section south of Fukuchiyama was renamed the Fukuchiyama Line. The station passed to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Freight handling ended in 1973 and parcel service in 1985. The current station building, originally the "Yama no Eki" pavilion from the 1990 International Garden and Greenery Exposition in Osaka, was relocated here and opened on 21 September 1991 as part of the Tamba-no-Mori concept. The Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket office closed in February 2020, ICOCA support began on 13 March 2021, and the station was placed under Fukuchiyama Station management on 1 October 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The wooden two-storey station building was relocated from the 1990 International Garden and Greenery Exposition in Osaka, where it had served as the "Yama no Eki" station on the fairground's "Dream Express" people-mover line.