History
Kōro Station opened on 26 July 1894 with the Banshū Railway's extension from Himeji to Teramae on what is now the Bantan Line. The line was transferred to Sanyō Railway in June 1903 and nationalised in December 1906; the route was formally designated the Bantan Line in October 1909. Carload freight handling ended in 1980 and parcels in 1984, and the station passed to West Japan Railway Company on 1 April 1987 at the breakup of Japanese National Railways. A new west exit and ICOCA IC card service were added in March 2016, when the platform configuration shifted to a 2-platform layout. The Midori no Madoguchi staffed window closed on 31 March 2025 and the station was fully unstaffed from the following day.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The wooden station building is labelled as having been completed in August 1894 and, since the older Une building on the Sanyō Main Line was decommissioned in 2017, it is now tied with Tsurui Station as the oldest surviving station building in Hyōgo Prefecture.