Befu (Hyogo)

Weekday departures: 11/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 47/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 7:39 / 24:14 (00:14 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 20:00–21:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line: Hamanomiya ⇄ Harimacho

Befu Station opened as Befu-kitaguchi Station on 19 August 1923 with the inauguration of the Kobe-Himeji Electric Railway. On 1 April 1927 the line was absorbed by Ujigawa Electric, and on 6 June 1933 Ujigawa's railway division separated to form Sanyō Electric Railway. The station was renamed Dentetsu-Befu Station on 1 April 1944: it had grown into the principal station for the town of Befu, and 'kitaguchi' (north entrance) was felt to be unsuitable for a representative station's name. It became an express stop on 1 March 1948. Express service was discontinued on 25 March 1984 and replaced by a limited express - nicknamed the 'Takasago-bound limited express' - that called at every station west of Higashi-Futami (later merged into the S-Limited Express). The station building moved beneath the elevated tracks on 25 July 1988, and the station was renamed Befu Station on 7 April 1991. From 22 February 2025, all limited express and through limited express trains began stopping here throughout the day.

The station sits on an embankment immediately south of the Sanyō Shinkansen in Kakogawa, Hyōgo (station number SY 28). The original name 'Befu-kitaguchi' was chosen to distinguish it from Befu-kō Station of the Befu Railway nearby, on the site now occupied by Ario Kakogawa; the Befu Railway's Noguchi Line passed beneath the station's elevated structure until 1984, and its Tsuchiyama Line crossed under the tracks slightly to the east. The 1988 reconstruction moved the station building from the embankment at the west end of the then down-line platform - where the two platforms were linked by an in-station level crossing - to a single ground-level ticket gate beneath the viaduct. The station name is read 'Befu'.