History
Tahara Station opened on 12 December 1919 as a Banshū Railway station, in what is now Kasai, Hyōgo Prefecture. The railway became the Banshū-Tan Railway in December 1923 and was closed on 1 June 1943. The station was reopened by Japanese National Railways on 18 February 1952 as a passenger-only stop, and on 1 April 1985 it passed to the third-sector Hōjō Railway when the line was transferred. The current station building, with a wooden frame and a pergola roof inspired by Kasai's grape-growing tradition, was completed in July 2010. The station has a single side platform serving a single bi-directional track and is unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the early-1980s pop trio Tanokin Trio — which included Toshihiko Tahara — was at its peak, fans made detours to Tahara Station to photograph its name board, sometimes covering it with graffiti.