History
Ishiyagawa Station opened on the Hanshin Main Line on 12 April 1905 in Higashinada-ku, Kobe. Service was suspended after the Great Hanshin earthquake in January 1995, and reconstruction of the Hanshin Main Line through the area took roughly seven months; the station was rebuilt as a single island platform replacing its earlier configuration of two opposed side platforms. Station numbering HS-26 was introduced on 1 April 2014. The Ishiyagawa rail yard sits on the Sannomiya side of the station, with a crossover track. The platform is 120 m long — long enough for a six-car Hanshin train — but in practice only four-car trains stop here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Part of the platform crosses directly over the Ishiya River, which gives the station its name, and the surrounding district served as one of the settings for Studio Ghibli's Grave of the Fireflies.