Kuroi (Hyogo)

Weekday departures: 48/day · Sat & holiday departures: 48/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:21 / 23:46

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (5)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Fukuchiyama Line: Ichijima ⇄ Iso

Kuroi Station opened on 15 July 1899 at Kuroi, Kasuga-chō, Tamba, Hyōgo Prefecture, as a station on the Hankaku Railway when the line was extended from Kaibara to Fukuchiyama-Minamiguchi (later Fukuchi Station, since demolished), handling both passengers and freight. The Hankaku Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1907, the Hankaku Line was designated under the 12 October 1909 line-name regulation, and on 1 March 1912 the section south of Fukuchiyama was renamed the Fukuchiyama Line. The station building was rebuilt in June 1956. Freight handling ended on 1 April 1973, parcel handling on 14 March 1985, and the station passed to JR West at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. From 1 April 1992 it came under the Sasayamaguchi Railway Sub-Bureau, returning to Fukuchiyama Branch direct management at the sub-bureau's abolition on 1 June 2009 (becoming a station managed by Sasayamaguchi). The ICOCA IC card became usable on 13 March 2021, and on 1 July 2021 station operations were transferred from JR West Fukuchiyama Mentec to JR West Transport Service. On 1 October 2022 a reorganisation placed the whole line under the Fukuchiyama Management Department of the Kinki Regional Headquarters, with Kuroi managed by Fukuchiyama. On 20 February 2024 a Midori ticket machine was installed; the ticket window closed on 15 March 2024, and the station became fully unstaffed on 1 April 2024.

Kuroi has two opposed side platforms and can cross trains; the station building stands on the northern platform 2 side, with a footbridge across to platform 1. The layout is a one-line-through arrangement in which platform 1 carries the running line in both directions, so every non-stopping train passes on it, while ordinary and rapid services that are not crossing another train call at platform 2 instead. A further track opposite platform 1 survives but is dead-ended at the Fukuchiyama end and is no longer used, and a siding immediately east of the station building — the site of the goods platform in the freight era — stables maintenance-of-way vehicles. Cherry trees are planted along the down platform.