History
Nada Station opened on 1 December 1917 on the Tōkaidō Main Line between the original Nada (renamed Higashinada the same day) and Sannomiya, in present-day Nada-ku, Kobe. Operations passed from JNR to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987, and the JR Kobe Line marketing name was adopted on 13 March 1988. The station was forced to close after the Great Hanshin earthquake on 17 January 1995, with services resuming in two stages between 20 February and 1 April that year. Automatic gates were installed on 29 November 1997, ICOCA service began on 1 November 2003, and a new overhead station building with full step-free access opened on 23 September 2009. A turnback crossover entered service on 19 March 2012, and station number JR-A60 was introduced in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the present overhead station building replaced the 1917 original in 2009, the new north facade was deliberately styled after the demolished one, which had survived both wartime air raids and the 1995 Hanshin earthquake.