History
Midorigaoka Station opened on 8 March 1950 as Hirono Yakyūjō-mae Station (広野野球場前), a passenger stop on the Kobe Electric Railway Ao Line between Oshibetani and Hirono Shinkai (now Hirono Golf-jō-mae), in present-day Miki, Hyōgo Prefecture. It was renamed Midorigaoka on 15 June 1958 as the surrounding land was redeveloped into the Jiyū-ga-oka new town. The station became unstaffed in April 2000, and the kiosk attached to the platform closed in March 2012. It is now the only single-track, single-platform stop on the line between Nishi-Suzurandai and Shijimi. The station is operated remotely via the line's optical-network station-management system, and serves as the gateway to the Midorigaoka and Aoyama new-town districts of northern Miki. Its station number is KB48.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Daily ridership on Shintetsu has been pulled down in recent years by the competing Shinki Bus service to Sannomiya, which loads at the station's own forecourt roundabout.