Kotoen

Weekday departures: 281/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 213/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:49 / 24:22 (00:22 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (27)

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:

• Hankyu Imazu Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Hankyu Imazu Line: Nigawa ⇄ Mondo-Yakujin

Kōtōen Station opened on 1 June 1922 as a new stop between Obayashi and Mondoyakujin on Hanshin Kyūkō Electric Railway's Seihō Line, made possible by land provided by the landowner Shibakawa Mataemon. Before the overhead reconstruction the ticket gate was underground. The Seihō Line was renamed the Imazu Line on 18 December 1926. The overhead station building was completed on 29 April 1998, and station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, giving the station the code HK-24.

The station's surroundings include the Kwansei Gakuin University Nishinomiya-Uegahara Campus, Kwansei Gakuin Junior High and Senior High, Hyōgo Prefectural Nishinomiya High School, Nigawa Gakuin Junior High and Senior High, Nigawa Gakuin Elementary, and Hōtoku Gakuen Junior High and Senior High, and many students use the station. It was damaged in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 17 January 1995 and subsequently renovated, adopting a station-building design conscious of Hanshinkan Modernism to suit the surrounding area.