History
Kannabe Station opened on 21 July 1914 on the Ryōbi Light Railway (later Ryōbi Railway). Its Takaya branch line opened in 1922 and was nationalised in 1933 as part of the Fukuen Line, while the Takaya branch was sold off and eventually closed by Ihasa Railway in 1967. The station was rebuilt as the Fukuen Line's first elevated station on 15 March 1979. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West, and on 11 January 1999 it became the western terminus of the new Ibara Railway Ibara Line. ICOCA service began on 1 September 2007, and the JR side was made unattended on 29 February 2020 after the Midori-no-Madoguchi closed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Kannabe is the only intermediate station on the Fukuen Line whose daily passenger count has surpassed one thousand, the highest of any non-terminal stop on the line.