History
Sanyo-Uozumi Station opened on 19 August 1923 as Uozumi Station on the Kōbe-Himeji Electric Railway, located 25.6 kilometres along what is today the Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line. The operator merged into Ujigawa Electric in 1927 before the railway division was spun off in 1933 as Sanyo Electric Railway. Service was suspended on 20 July 1945 in the closing weeks of the Second World War and reopened on 15 November 1947. To distinguish it from JR Sanyo Main Line's Uozumi Station, which opened nearby on 1 October 1961, it was renamed Dentetsu Uozumi at that point, and again to its current Sanyo-Uozumi name on 7 April 1991. The 1970 station rebuild added the underground passage that still links the two side platforms.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The pedestrian underpass beneath the platforms is decorated with sea-themed murals painted by students of National Akashi College of Technology.