History
Kobata Station opened on 15 June 1937 with the inauguration of the Miki Electric Railway's Kizu-to-Oshibedani section, as Kobata Station; the adjacent Sakae Station opened the same day. The line passed to the merged Shin'yū-Sanki Dentetsu (later Kobe Electric Railway) on 9 January 1947. The station was renamed Dentetsu-Kobata on 1 October 1952. A new station building was completed in November 1979, and the name reverted to Kobata on 1 April 1988.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Two other distinct stations share the kanji 木幡駅: a Keihan Uji Line station and a JR West Nara Line station — the latter sitting on the same JR Nara Line as the JR West station named for Kobata's own neighbouring stop, Kizu.