Obayashi

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): 4:53 / 24:18 (00:18 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (25)

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: Sasegawa ⇄ Nigawa

Obayashi Station opened on 2 September 1921 on the Hanshin Express Electric Railway (today's Hankyu Railway) Saihō Line, on the same day the Takarazuka–Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi section came into service, in Obayashi 2-chōme, Takarazuka, Hyōgo. The Saihō Line was renamed the Imazu Line on 18 December 1926. The station building was rebuilt in 1977, and station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, giving the station number HK-26. Before the railway was opened, horse-drawn coaches ran between Nishinomiya and the present-day station site, carrying playgoers from the Kobe area onward to Takarazuka.

The station name 小林 is pronounced "Obayashi" rather than the common reading "Kobayashi" used for the same characters in place- and family-names elsewhere. During the war, between 15 December 1943 and 21 September 1945, an additional station — Kashio Station — was opened between Obayashi and Nigawa to carry workers to the Kawanishi Aircraft plant on what is now the Hanshin Racecourse site.