History
Sanda Station opened on 25 January 1899 as the terminus of a Hankaku Railway extension from Arimaguchi (today Namaze) in the city of Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture. The line was nationalised on 1 August 1907, became the Hankaku Line on 12 October 1909, and was renamed the southern half of the Fukuchiyama Line on 1 March 1912. The connecting Arima Light Railway opened into Sanda on 16 April 1915 and was nationalised on 31 March 1919 as part of the eventually closed JNR Arima Line. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the JR portion came under JR West, and station numbering JR-G61 was introduced in March 2018. Today the station is jointly operated by JR West and the Kobe Electric Railway (Shintetsu), with the Shintetsu Sanda Line terminating at its bay platforms.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until 1943 the JNR Arima Line branched from Sanda to Arima Onsen; the trace of the long-removed first platform of that line can still be made out at the Amagasaki end of JR platform 1.