History
Nakayamadera Station opened on 27 December 1897 as Nakayama Station on the privately operated Hankaku Railway, in what is today the city of Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture. The line was nationalised in 1907 and the station was renamed to its present form Nakayamadera on 11 September 1915, reflecting its role as the gateway to the nearby Nakayama-dera temple. With the privatisation of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, the station passed to the West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It now sits on the Fukuchiyama Line, marketed as the JR Takarazuka Line, 14.5 km from the line's terminus at Amagasaki. Station numbering was introduced in March 2018, assigning Nakayamadera the designation JR-G55.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's two ground-level platforms are linked by a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office, an unusually full-service facility for a suburban stop named after a single Buddhist temple.