History
Itami Station opened on 12 December 1893 on the Settsu Railway between Itami and what is now Kawanishi-Ikeda, replacing an earlier Itami Horse Tramway station on the same name. Settsu Railway merged into Hankaku Railway in February 1897 and was nationalised on 1 August 1907. The route was renamed Fukuchiyama Line on 1 March 1912. Freight handling ended on 1 July 1979 and the station became an overhead station on 1 April 1981. Operations transferred to JR West on 1 April 1987, the JR Takarazuka Line nickname was added in March 1988, and ICOCA was accepted from 1 November 2003. The station closed for 55 days after the Amagasaki derailment in 2005, reopening on 19 June. Station numbering JR-G52 was assigned in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Itami sat in commercial irrelevance for decades — improvements began only after 1981 double-tracking and electrification, then 1997 through-running on the JR Tōzai Line; Aeon Mall Itami opened in the 2000s on Toyo Tire's former factory grounds next to the station.