History
Shin-Kōbe Station opened on 15 March 1972 with the Shin-Ōsaka–Okayama extension of the San'yō Shinkansen, built into a narrow gap between the Rokko and Kobe tunnels at the foot of Mount Rokko. JR West took over from JNR at privatisation on 1 April 1987. From the 1 October 2003 timetable revision every commercial Shinkansen service — including all Nozomi — became a mandatory stop, the smallest station in the Tōkaidō–San'yō network to hold that status. The Kobe Municipal Subway Seishin-Yamate Line section to Ōkurayama opened beneath the JR station on 18 June 1985, and the Hokushin Line to Tanigami on 2 April 1988 (municipalised on 1 June 2020). Platform-edge doors entered service on the JR platforms in 2018–2019 and on the subway platforms in 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Shinkansen platforms sit on a 3,000 m-radius curve squeezed between two tunnel mouths, leaving no room for a passing loop; through Shinkansen used to whip past at 230 km/h before the 2003 timetable made every train stop.