History
Senrioka Station opened on 1 December 1938 as a new stop on the Imperial Government Railways' Tōkaidō Main Line between Ibaraki and Suita. The current overhead station building dates from 18 March 1983, and operations transferred to JR West on 1 April 1987 alongside the JR Kyoto Line nickname adopted the next March. Automatic fare gates entered service on 19 July 1997 and ICOCA was accepted from 1 November 2003. The JR Kyoto-Kobe Line operation management system was deployed in July 2002. Platforms were re-surfaced in March 2015, the manned ticket office closed on 4 March 2022 and was replaced the next day by a Midori no Kenbaiki Plus terminal, and station numbering JR-A42 was added in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Senrioka was the planned access station for Expo '70 and a major reconstruction was scheduled for it, but neighbouring Ibaraki Station ultimately won the role, and the redevelopment plans sat shelved for thirteen years before anything was built.