History
Uguisunomori Station opened on 21 August 1953 on the Nose Electric Railway Myōken Line in what is now Kawanishi, Hyōgo Prefecture, replacing the older Yatoi Station that had stood since 5 September 1916 nearby. Yatoi was closed when the railway introduced larger Type 50 cars whose gap to the platform was deemed unsafe at the tight curve before the original Inagawa River bridge, and the relocated Uguisunomori took its place. As initially built it had an island platform and could host trains passing in opposite directions, but on 30 November 1967 the station was rebuilt when the line was double-tracked to this point. Its station number is NS04.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Both station building and platforms are painted nightingale-green in reference to the station name, which means "nightingale grove" — a remnant of woodland near the station from which Japanese bush warblers can still be heard in spring, though much of it was lost to housing development by 2003.