History
Nishidai Station opened on 15 March 1910 with the Hyōgo Electric Tramway's first segment between Hyōgo and Suma. After ownership passed through Ujigawa Electric in 1927, the railway operations were spun off in 1933 as Sanyō Electric Railway. A fire at the Nishidai depot in September 1951 destroyed fourteen cars. With the opening of the Kobe Rapid Railway on 7 April 1968 the Hyōgo–Nishidai section was abandoned and the station became Sanyō Electric Main Line's terminus and the boundary point for through-running. After the 17 January 1995 Hanshin earthquake the surface station was abandoned in favour of an underground replacement, which opened on 18 June 1995.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although a westbound station on the Hanshin railway map, Nishidai is the headquarters station of rival operator Sanyō Electric Railway and the westernmost as well as southernmost station of the entire Hanshin network.