History
Harima-Yokota Station traces back to a provisional stop, Yokotamura Teishajō, that opened on the privately built Banshū Railway on 3 June 1916, then closed in 1921 and was formally abolished on 5 April 1934. The site was revived under Japanese National Railways as Yokota provisional stop on 1 October 1961 and elevated to a full passenger station as Harima-Yokota on 20 December 1961. The line was transferred to the third-sector Hōjō Railway Company on 1 April 1985, when the operating distance to Hōjō-machi was re-measured from 2.4 to 2.3 kilometres. A new station building was funded by a private donation from a Kobe resident and completed in November 2014, with an inaugural ceremony held on 3 November.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The current station building was funded entirely by a personal donation from a Kobe resident and includes an interior gallery that exhibits the donor's own paintings.