History
Karatodai Station opened on 1 July 1966 as a new intermediate stop on the Kobe Electric Railway (Shintetsu) Arima Line, on a stretch of line between today's Shintetsu-Rokko and Arima-Guchi stations in Kita ward of Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. It sits at an elevation of 309 metres and serves a residential area developed by the city of Kobe. The station, numbered KB14, consists of two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by a level crossing, with the building on the inbound platform. It is equipped with a remote station-management system linked to the network's optical fibre, and trains run roughly four times per hour in each direction, mostly through-running with the Sanda Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Sitting at 309 metres above sea level on the slopes north of Mount Rokko, Karatodai is unusually high for a commuter station serving a Kobe residential district.