Shin-Kobe

Weekday departures: 487/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 442/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:26 / 24:32 (00:32 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (36)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 3 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

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 complete: San'yo Shinkansen, Hokushin Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Yamate Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Yamate Line: Sannomiya
• Hokushin Line: Tanigami
• San'yo Shinkansen: Shin-Osaka ⇄ Nishi-Akashi

Shin-Kōbe Station opened on 15 March 1972 with the Shin-Ōsaka–Okayama extension of the San'yō Shinkansen, built into a narrow gap between the Rokkō and Kobe tunnels at the foot of Mount Rokkō. JR West took over from JNR at privatisation on 1 April 1987. From the 1 October 2003 timetable revision the station became a mandatory stop for every commercial Shinkansen service, including all Nozomi — the smallest station in the Tōkaidō–San'yō network to hold that status. The Kobe Municipal Subway Seishin-Yamate Line section from Ōkurayama reached Shin-Kōbe on 18 June 1985, and the Hokushin Line to Tanigami opened on 2 April 1988 (municipalised on 1 June 2020). Platform-edge doors entered service on the JR platforms in 2018–2019 and on the subway platforms in 2022.

The Shinkansen platforms sit on a 3,000 m-radius curve squeezed between two tunnel mouths, leaving no room for a passing loop; through Shinkansen used to whip past at 230 km/h before the 2003 timetable made every train stop.