History
Sanda Honmachi Station opened on 10 October 1929 as a station on the Kobe-Arima Electric Railway Sanda Line, on a section between Dentetsu-Yokoyama (today's Yokoyama) and Sanda. The Kobe-Arima merger with the Sanki Electric Railway on 9 January 1947 made it a station of the subsequently renamed Kobe Electric Railway. The Yokoyama–Sanda section was double-tracked on 24 March 1991, prompting a rebuild on 21 March 1991 that gave the station its present island platform, an underground crossing replacing an earlier level pedestrian crossing, and a new station building. The station is administratively on the Sanda Line but also handles Kōen-toshi Line through services, totalling around eight trains an hour per direction. Station number KB28.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Despite being a Sanda Line station and unrelated to the parallel Kōen-toshi Line, on-train announcements introduce the stop as "Honmachi, Sanda-Honmachi" so passengers can hear the place name first.