Station

Kambe

神戸

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Kambe
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Timetable information

Weekday departures: 70/day · Sat & holiday departures: 54/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:11 / 23:01

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (4)


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

Timetable data as of 5 May 2026.

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Location

History

Today's Kambe Station (2nd generation) traces back to Kambe Signal Box, opened on 1 September 1930 with a branch line for Onoda Cement (now Taiheiyō Cement). With the 1 September 1940 merger with Nagoya Railroad, the signal box became part of Meitetsu's Atsumi Line; the Atsumi Line section between Shin-Toyohashi and Mikawa-Tahara was transferred to Toyohashi Railroad on 1 October 1954. Passing-loop facilities were added on 21 February 1956. The original (1st generation) Kambe Station, opened at the line's inauguration about 0.5 km closer to Mikawa-Tahara, was treated as a separate facility on paper, was suspended in 1944, and was formally abolished in 1977. The current 2nd generation Kambe Station upgraded the signal box to a passenger station on 10 July 1989; the Onoda Cement branch line had been abolished before the upgrade. (Onoda Cement's Tahara plant closed in 2002.)

Notes

Kambe is an unstaffed surface station with two side platforms serving two tracks and passing capability on the Toyohashi Railroad Atsumi Line (station number 15). The entrance is only on the south, residential side of the line; there is no exit to the Tahara Highway (old National Route 259) on the north side. The station forecourt, accessible to cars, was developed by Tahara City. Ridership is low because the next station, Mikawa-Tahara, is close - the station is described as feeling like a signal box.

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