History
Uozumi Station opened on 1 October 1961 as a passenger-only stop on the JNR San'yō Main Line between Ōkubo and Tsuchiyama; construction costs were borne entirely by the local community as a petitioned station. JR West took over from JNR at privatisation on 1 April 1987, and the JR Kobe Line marketing name was adopted on 13 March 1988. Service was briefly suspended by the Great Hanshin earthquake on 17 January 1995 and resumed on 18 January with the recovery of the Nishi-Akashi–Himeji segment. Automatic gates were installed on 31 January 1998, ICOCA service began on 1 November 2003, and an overhead station building entered service on 14 March 2009. Station number JR-A76 was assigned in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until the JNR Uozumi Station opened in 1961, the name belonged to today's Sanyō-Uozumi Station on the Sanyō Electric Railway, sited about 750 m to the south.