History
Tada Station opened on 13 April 1913 on what is now the Nose Electric Railway's Myōken Line, in present-day Kawanishi, Hyōgo Prefecture. Until the 1960s the line ran along Japan National Route 173 as street running, but the station itself was offset to the east on a private right-of-way. The station moved to its current location on 8 June 1952, the platforms were lengthened to three cars on 15 December 1966, the new up platform opened on 28 November 1968, and the line was doubled on 5 October 1969. The platform extension once accommodated six-car trains, but a 2010 barrier-free remodelling reduced the effective length of the Yamashita-bound platform to five cars.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The placename "Tada" is most often traced to the new rice paddies that Minamoto no Mitsunaka opened here in the tenth century, though documents predating his settlement use the variant "Tada-no-mura" instead.