History
Kanno Station opened on 1 April 1913 as Kanno halt with the inauguration of the Banshu Railway between the present-day Kakogawa and Yakujin Stations. It was promoted to full station status on 23 August 1929, and operations passed to Bantan Railway by line transfer in December 1923. The line was nationalised on 1 June 1943, bringing the station under JNR control as part of the Kakogawa Line. Parcel handling ended in October 1973, and at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West. A north-side station building entered service on 2 October 2010, designed jointly with the city of Kakogawa using local timber and a roof curve evoking the Kakogawa river. The station became unstaffed on 1 April 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Kanno was for decades the second-busiest intermediate station on the Kakogawa Line, but it was overtaken in 2020 by Ao Station and is now ranked second again among the line's through stops.