History
The station opened on 1 April 1936 as Nishi-Nada Station, on the same day that the Hanshin Express Electric Railway (now Hankyu) extended the Kobe Main Line into the second-generation Kobe (now Kobe-Sannomiya) terminus. The earlier line terminus was renamed Kamitsutsui, and the connecting section became the Kamitsutsui Line until its abolition on 20 May 1940. The current station building dates from 24 October 1956. The station was renamed Ōji-kōen on 1 June 1984 to distinguish it from a nearby Hanshin Nishi-Nada Station and to reflect the adjacent Ōji Park. The Great Hanshin earthquake of January 1995 forced a closure of about four months; station numbering as HK-14 followed on 21 December 2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.