History
Suma Station opened on 1 November 1888 on the Sanyō Railway's Hyōgo-to-Akashi extension and was nationalised on 1 December 1906, joining the San'yō Main Line under the 1909 naming convention. Electrification reached Suma in two stages in 1934. Freight handling ended in 1949 and the station building was rebuilt in 1963. The 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake closed the station briefly between mid- and late January. ICOCA service was added on 1 November 2003. From the 2006 timetable revision the station has been used as a turn-back point for many daytime local services to and from the Osaka direction.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
On 27 December 1975 conductor Ken'ichi Ōyama jumped from the platform to save an inebriated passenger who had fallen onto the express track and was killed alongside the man by the oncoming Shin-Kaisoku service; a memorial stone on the platform commemorates his act of courage in his second year of service.