History
Shintetsu Rokkō Station opened on 28 November 1928 as Rokkō Kitaguchi Station (六甲北口駅) with the Kobe-Arima Electric Railway's Minatogawa–Denshatsu Arima (now Arima-Onsen) extension. It was renamed Rokkō Tozanguchi Station (六甲登山口駅) on 10 October 1929, then absorbed by Shin'yū-Miki Electric Railway (today's Kobe Electric Railway) through the 9 January 1947 merger with Miki Electric Railway. It received its present name, Shintetsu Rokkō, on 1 April 1988. The station building was rebuilt in October 1996 in a Swiss-mountain-lodge style to align with the new "Kobe Dentetsu Rokkō Hibarigaoka" residential development next to the station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Shintetsu Rokkō stands at 323 m elevation on the north side of Mount Rokkō. The like-named Rokkō Station on the Hankyu Kobe Main Line (in Nada Ward) lies about 7 km to the south on the opposite side of the mountain. Although the station has a Sōnyū-style remote-operation system that lets a central station drive the ticket machines, fare gates, fare adjusters, CCTV, intercoms and shutters, the in-station kiosk has long since been closed.