History
Amagasaki Station opened on 1 June 1874 on the Tōkaidō Main Line, originally named Kanzaki Station (神崎駅) after a nearby Chūgoku-kaidō river crossing rather than the more distant Amagasaki castle town. The current name was adopted in 1949 when the loss-making Amagasaki-kō freight line was renamed and its terminus took over the Amagasaki name. Operation passed from JNR to West Japan Railway Company on 1 April 1987. The station's status was transformed by the opening of the JR Tōzai Line on 8 March 1997: an extra platform was added, and Amagasaki became a major junction where Tōkaidō, Fukuchiyama, and Tōzai Line trains interchange. Today all Fukuchiyama Line commuter and limited-express services stop here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-10.
Notes
Despite sharing a name, JR's Amagasaki and Hanshin's Amagasaki are separate stations roughly 1.8 km apart; passengers transferring between the two must take a bus rather than walk through any shared facility.