History
Shioya Station (Hyōgo) opened on 1 July 1896 as Shioya Provisional Stop on the San'yō Railway between Suma and Tarumi, handling passengers and freight. It was promoted to a full station and absorbed into the state railway on 1 December 1906, then designated part of the San'yō Main Line on 12 October 1909. Electric operation between Suma and Akashi began on 20 September 1934. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1943 and parcel handling on 10 September 1963, with the station building rebuilt that July. At privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West, and on 13 March 1988 it began using the "JR Kobe Line" nickname. The station was briefly suspended by the Great Hanshin Earthquake on 17 January 1995 and reopened on 23 January when service between Suma and Nishi-Akashi was restored. Automatic ticket gates were installed on 6 November 1997, ICOCA service began on 1 November 2003, station numbering (JR-A69) was introduced on 17 March 2018, and the staffed Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket office closed on 30 June 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Tarumi-ku, especially around Shioya, was largely spared during the wartime air raids, and prewar housing survives near the station; the area around 6-chome was sometimes called "the second Kitano-cho" for the foreign residences that overlooked the sea after Kobe's port opened.