History
Inano Station opened on 10 May 1921 between Tsukaguchi and Itami on the Hanshin Express Railway's Itami Line (now Hankyu Itami Line). The provisional name during construction was "Itamiguchi". The area was largely empty when the station opened, but the 1925 Hankyu "Inano residential development" filled it in with the quiet suburbia that surrounds the station today. The 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake shut the whole line until the Tsukaguchi-Shin-Itami section reopened on 21 January. The station has two opposed side platforms with separate entrances on each side, no internal crossing, and was given station number HK-18 on 21 December 2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
It is the only stop on the Itami Line without a bus stand outside the entrance: the surrounding streets are too narrow, so passengers walk roughly 150 metres north to a prefectural road to catch a bus.