History
Abiki Station opened on 3 March 1915 with the Banshū Railway's section between Aō and Hōjōmachi, in what is now Kasai, Hyōgo Prefecture. The railway became the Banshū-Tan Railway on 21 December 1923 and was nationalised on 1 June 1943. Freight handling ended on 1 March 1962 and parcel service on 1 October 1973, when the station was made unstaffed. The original station building was destroyed by arson in June 1984. The station passed to the third-sector Hōjō Railway on 1 April 1985, toilets were rebuilt in January 2012, the present station building was completed on 19 February 2013, and a garden was added on the far side of the platform in February 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
On 31 March 1945 a Japanese Navy Shiden-Kai fighter on a test flight from nearby Uzurano Airfield grazed the line between Abiki and Hokkeguchi; the warped track derailed the next northbound train, killing eleven people and injuring 104.