History
Kakogawa Station opened on 23 December 1888 with the Sanyō Railway's extension from Akashi to Himeji. The line was nationalised in 1906 and incorporated into the San'yō Main Line in 1909. A separate Banshū Railway terminus, Kakogawachō (forerunner of today's Kakogawa Line and the now-closed Takasago Line), opened beside the station in 1913 and was absorbed in 1915. The Takasago Line closed in 1984. JR West inherited the station at the 1987 privatisation, and a continuous grade-separation project carried out from 1998 to 2005 lifted both the San'yō Main Line and the Kakogawa Line onto elevated platforms. Station numbering JR-A79 was introduced in March 2018, and limited expresses returned in 2019 after a multi-decade absence.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The old ground-level station building demolished during the 2000s elevation works had originally been built in 1910 as Sakurajima Station in Osaka, then relocated to Kakogawa in 1919.