History
Neyagawakōen Station opened on 1 October 1979 as Higashi-Neyagawa Station, added during double-tracking of the JNR Katamachi Line. It was Neyagawa city's first national-railway station; the roughly 450 million yen building cost and surrounding infrastructure were funded entirely by the city. JR West inherited the station at the 1987 privatisation and added the "Gakkentoshi Line" branding in 1988. In March 2018 the Midori no Madoguchi counter closed and the station was numbered JR-H32. After local complaints that no neighbourhood named Higashi-Neyagawa actually existed, the station was renamed Neyagawakōen — "Neyagawa Park" — on 16 March 2019, with the 120 million yen cost paid by the city. The station became unstaffed full-time on 1 July 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although ground-level on paper, the platforms sit deep in a cutting between the Uchiage tunnel and the line's open dig, so passengers descend from the surface station building as if entering a subway.