History
Ichiba Station opened on 10 August 1913 as a passenger-only stop on the Banshū Railway when the line was extended from Kunikane (now Yakujin) to Nishiwaki. Freight was added on 10 November the same year. The station passed to the successor Bantan Railway in December 1923 and was nationalised on 1 June 1943, becoming a Kakogawa Line station under Japanese National Railways. Freight handling ended on 1 September 1962 and parcel handling on 1 October 1973, when the station was destaffed (with a single day-shift attendant kept on for one further year). JR West inherited the station at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The station sits in Kibita, Ono, Hyōgo Prefecture, 11.5 km from the line's terminus at Kakogawa, with two ground-level side platforms connected by a footbridge.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.