Kobe (Hyogo)

Weekday departures: 546/day · Sat & holiday departures: 546/day

First / last departure (weekday): 4:58 / 24:46 (00:46 next day)

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (34)

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: Hyogo
• Tokaido Main Line: Motomachi (Hyogo)

Kōbe Station opened on 11 May 1874 as the terminus of Japan's second government-built railway, the line from Osaka, and its original station building was of brick. Trains began running through to Shinbashi in Tokyo on 1 July 1889, the same date a second-generation station building entered use, and the private Sanyō Railway began calling here that September before being nationalised in 1906. The present third-generation building, completed on 1 July 1930 and listed as a Modern-Era heritage structure, preceded the elevation of the tracks in October 1931. Operations passed to JR West at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987.

Although Kōbe Station marks the boundary between the Tōkaidō and Sanyō Main Lines, the city's commercial heart and prefectural offices have shifted east to Sannomiya and Motomachi, and a once-lavish VIP reception room (kihinshitsu) remains as a relic of the station's earlier prominence.