History
Kishibe Station opened on 11 April 1947 between Senrioka and Suita on the Tōkaidō Main Line, in the vicinity of the Suita marshalling yard. A reinforced-concrete station building was completed on 25 June 1970. Operations transferred to JR West on 1 April 1987 and the JR Kyoto Line nickname followed the next March. Automatic gates were installed on 19 July 1997 and ICOCA on 1 November 2003. Provisional opening of the overhead station building came on 17 March 2012 in preparation for the Suita freight terminal redevelopment, with the north entrance and plaza opening on 21 May 2012; all overhead station works wrapped up on 14 March 2015. Station numbering JR-A43 was added in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although every signpost spells the station "Kishibe" (岸辺), the surrounding district is called Kishibe with a different second character (岸部) — Japanese National Railways chose the simpler character at opening to make the station name easier to read.