History
Maruyama Station opened on 28 November 1928 as Takatorimichi Station (鷹取道駅) of the Kobe Arima Electric Railway. On 9 January 1947 it became a station of Shin-Yū Miki Electric Railway after merger with Miki Electric Railway. The station was renamed Maruyama Station on 1 October 1948. On 30 April 1949 the operator's name changed and the station became a Kobe Electric Railway (神戸電気鉄道) station; on 1 October 1952 the station was renamed Dentetsu-Maruyama (電鉄丸山). A pedestrian overbridge was installed in November 1973. On 1 April 1988 the operator changed its name (becoming the current 神戸電鉄), and the station simultaneously reverted to Maruyama.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Maruyama Station (Kobe Electric Railway Arima Line, KB04) sits at an elevation of 95 m in Nagata-ku, Kobe. It has two side platforms serving two tracks, with a five-car effective platform length; the station building is on the down-line platform, connected to the up-line by a pedestrian overbridge. The Maruyama Thrust Fault - the first reverse fault discovered in Japan - is in the area, along with Hiyodori Lookout Park and Mount Takatori. The station is equipped with a remote-control system on a fibre-optic line and is staffed only by patrol; there is no station shop, and the ticket-discount consignment sales formerly offered by a nearby shop ended by November 2009.