History
Kamigōri Station opened on 4 April 1895 as a station on the San'yō Main Line, in what is now the town of Kamigōri, Akō District, Hyōgo Prefecture. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways, the station came under West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It is also the western terminus of the third-sector Chizu Express's Chizu Line, with one side of the eastern island platform fitted with a dead-end cut-out used by Chizu Line services. The station sits 89.6 kilometres from Himeji and 122.7 kilometres from Osaka on the San'yō Main Line, and 56.1 kilometres from Chizu on the Chizu Line. The JR portion is staffed; the Chizu Express platform is on the eastern island.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Although there are two ground-level island platforms, the inner faces of both platforms are out of regular service: the station is effectively worked as a four-track passing point with cut-back use of the outer faces.