History
Tanikawa Station, in the city of Tamba in Hyōgo Prefecture, opened on 25 May 1899 as a station on the Hankaku Railway, the private line that became the Fukuchiyama Line. It became the northern terminus of the Banshū-Tan'yō (Banshū-Tan) Railway's Kakogawa Line on 27 December 1924, when that company extended to it from Nomura (now Nishiwaki-shi). The Banshū-Tan was nationalised on 1 June 1943. JR West inherited the station at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. ICOCA service was introduced in March 2021, the staffed Midori no Madoguchi ticket window closed in March 2025, and the station became fully unattended on 1 April 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the Fukuchiyama and Kakogawa lines meet here, no operational connection between the two is provided — passengers must change trains and the rails are linked only via a shunting siding at the west end of the station.