History
Harima-Shimosato Station opened on 14 August 1917 as Harima-Oji Station on what is today the Hojo Line in the city of Kasai, Hyogo Prefecture. It was renamed to its present name on 1 June 1943. The line eventually passed to the third-sector Hojo Railway Company, which operates it today. In 2014 the original wooden station building and platform were registered by the national government as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property, recognising the structure as a surviving example of early Showa-era rural-line architecture. The unattended station consists of a single side platform serving one bi-directional track, located 8.0 kilometres from the line terminus at Ao Station, and recorded an average of 87 passengers per day in fiscal 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Both Harima-Shimosato and the nearby Osa Station were registered together as National Tangible Cultural Properties in 2014, recognising a pair of original 1910s wooden Hojo Line stations preserved in their early Showa configurations.