History
Abikocho Station opened on 1 January 1930 as Abiko Kannon-mae Temporary Halt on the Hanwa Electric Railway, set up to handle pilgrim traffic for the nearby Daisho Kanonji temple. After repeated extensions of its provisional period it was formally redesignated as a halt on 6 December 1930. Through the wartime reorganisation it became a Nankai Yamate Line halt on 1 December 1940 and was nationalised on 1 May 1944, when it was promoted to a full station and renamed Abikocho on the new Hanwa Line. In 1970 it became the first Japanese railway station to have tactile paving fitted along its platform edges. JR West inherited the station at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. The up platform was elevated on 16 October 2004 and the down platform on 21 May 2006. Station numbering JR-R25 was introduced on 17 March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Abikocho was the first railway station in Japan to install tactile paving along its platform edges, fitted in 1970.