History
Minotani Station opened on 28 November 1928 with the inauguration of the Kōbe Arima Electric Railway (now Shintetsu) line between Minatogawa and Denki-Arima (today's Arima-Onsen). On 9 January 1947 a merger with Miki Electric Railway placed the station under the renamed Shinyu Miki Electric Railway, eventually becoming part of Kobe Electric Railway. The station has two opposed ground-level side platforms, with the wooden Shinkaichi-side building connected to the opposite platform by a level crossing on the station premises. Station number KB09 has since been assigned. The station is set at 244 metres above sea level on the mountainside above the town.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Minotani's car park is run primarily as a park-and-ride for the City Bus Express Route 64, which uses the Hanshin Expressway Shin-Kobe Tunnel — passengers bypass the Shintetsu and subway lines in favour of the bus.