History
Takatori Station opened on 1 April 1900 on the Sanyō Railway, one month after the adjacent Takatori Workshop began operations and primarily to convey its staff. It was nationalised on 1 December 1906 and became part of the San'yō Main Line in 1909. Five-tracking between Hyōgo and Takatori was completed on 22 September 1938, and quadruple-tracking between Takatori and Nishi-Akashi followed on 28 March 1965. The Takatori Workshop, badly damaged by the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake, closed on 31 March 2000 and its functions were transferred to Aboshi General Rolling Stock Works. The station was rebuilt in 2003 with an elevator and escalators, and station numbering JR-A66 was introduced in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Seismic readings taken at Takatori Station during the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake were later used by Riken computational seismologists in 2016 to model the response of a reinforced-concrete pier; the "JR Takatori wave" remains a reference for near-field earthquake engineering.