Higashi Kakogawa

Weekday departures: 144/day · Sat & holiday departures: 144/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:24 / 24:44 (00:44 next day)

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (11)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• JR Sanyo Main Line: Kakogawa ⇄ Tsuchiyama

Higashi-Kakogawa Station opened on 1 October 1961 on the Japanese National Railways’ San’yō Main Line between Tsuchiyama and Kakogawa in Kakogawa, Hyōgo Prefecture, as a petition station with construction costs fully borne by the local community. A siding was added in 1968 and a planned freight yard east of the station was shelved in 1977. The stop passed to JR West with the 1987 break-up of JNR and adopted the “JR Kobe Line” nickname in 1988. Service paused briefly on 17 January 1995 during the Great Hanshin Earthquake. After decades of local lobbying, an overhead station building opened on 26 November 2006, and station numbering as JR-A78 followed in March 2018. A roughly 3.7 km grade-separation project around the station is targeted for groundbreaking in fiscal 2031.

The earmarked freight-yard land east of the station was repurposed for temporary housing after the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake and is now the residential district of Tsutsujino in Hiraoka-chō.