History
Eigashima Station opened on 19 August 1923 with the inauguration of the Kobe-Himeji Electric Railway. It passed to Ujigawa Denki when that company absorbed the Kobe-Himeji line on 1 April 1927, and then to Sanyo Electric Railway on 6 June 1933 when Ujigawa Denki spun off its railway division. The station building was rebuilt and an underpass linking the two platforms was opened in December 1970. From 1 August 2019 the station carries the secondary name "Nikkō Mae" (Nearest to Nikkō) under a naming-rights agreement with the nearby Nikkō Corporation. The station has two opposed side platforms at grade with the ticket gate at the Himeji end and is now unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.