History
Sasabe Station opened on 3 November 1923 on the Nose Electric Railway Myoken Line in what is now the city of Kawanishi, Hyogo Prefecture. Until Tokiwadai Station opened in 1968, Sasabe was the only intermediate stop between Yamashita and Myokenguchi after the area was opened for housing development. Today it occupies a single-platform ground-level layout with effective length for four-car trains, and remains an unattended halt on the line. With station number NS11, Sasabe handled an average of 109 passengers per day in fiscal 2019; despite its location at the back of the large Yamato Housing Complex, most residents instead walk to neighbouring Hatano or Yamashita, where express services and shops are concentrated, making Sasabe the least-used station on the entire Nose Electric Railway network.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Despite sitting beside the large Yamato Housing Complex, Sasabe is the least-used station on the entire Nose Electric Railway because residents typically walk to Yamashita instead, where every line service stops.