History
Settsu-Motoyama Station opened on 25 December 1935 on the Tōkaidō Main Line. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways it came under JR West, which operates the segment commercially as part of the JR Kobe Line. Station numbering JR-A56 was introduced in March 2018. The station sits 578.5 km from the Tōkaidō Main Line's Tokyo terminus and 22.1 km from Osaka, and has two island platforms beneath an elevated station building; only the inner tracks see passenger traffic, the outer pair being reserved for express trains that pass through. Konan University and Kobe Pharmaceutical University are within walking distance of the station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Hankyu's Okamoto Station is only about four minutes' walk to the north, making the two an informal but heavily used transfer pair between the JR Kobe Line and the Hankyu Kobe Main Line.