History
Ono Station opened on 28 December 1951 as Dentetsu Ono Station, in Nishihatake, Shinmei-chō, Ono, Hyōgo, when the Kobe Electric Railway (Shintetsu) Ao Line was extended from Miki Fukuyūbashi (today's Miki Station) — the station was the new terminus. On 10 April 1952 the line was extended onward to Ao Station and the stop became intermediate. The station was renamed Ono on 1 April 1988, around the time Ono City began redeveloping the west side of the station. Construction of the present overhead station building started on 26 January 1990 and was completed on 23 April 1991. The station was unstaffed from 1 April 2002, with operations conducted by a remote management system over the line's optical-fibre network. Reserved sales of commuter passes at the station are scheduled to end in mid-March 2026.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
On 4 March 1971, during shunting at Ono Station, a train was left unattended by its crew and ran away down the grade as far as Ao Station, where it collided with a stationary train.