History
Tenwa Station opened on 1 May 1963 as a Japanese National Railways station on the newly built Ako Line between Banshu-Ako and Bizen-Fukukawa, in what is now Ako, Hyogo Prefecture. From the start it handled only passengers, was unstaffed, and had been requested by local residents. With the 1987 privatisation of JNR the station came under JR West. ICOCA-only IC ticket gates were installed on 15 September 2018. The station has a single ground-level side platform serving one bidirectional track; there is no station building, and access is directly onto the platform. Although operated under JR West's Kinki branch, the trains that call here belong to the China branch network.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A 2012 NHK drama broadcast used the station as the filming location for a sendoff scene, with a special three-car 115-series train running in classic Shonan colours.