History
Hon-Kuroda Station opened on 27 December 1924 when the private Banshū-Tantō Railway extended its line between Nomura (today Nishiwakishi) and Tanikawa, handling both passengers and freight. The line was nationalised on 1 June 1943 as part of the Kakogawa Line. Freight handling ended in November 1964 and parcel service in October 1973, and the station was made unstaffed in November 1986. With the breakup and privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, the station passed to JR West. It came under the Kakogawa Railway Department in June 1990, then under direct Kobe Branch control from July 2009 as a station managed from Kakogawa Station. The original station building was demolished in March 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station serves the village area that takes its name from Kuroda Castle, the historic seat associated with the Sengoku-period strategist Kuroda Kanbei.