Station

Tahara

田原

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Tahara
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Tahara Station opened on 12 December 1919 as a Banshū Railway station, in what is now Kasai, Hyōgo Prefecture. It became a station of the Bantan Railway in December 1923 and was abolished on 1 June 1943. The station was reopened by Japanese National Railways on 18 February 1952 as a passenger-only stop, and on 1 April 1985 it passed to the third-sector Hōjō Railway when the line was transferred. The current station building, with a wooden frame and a pergola roof inspired by Kasai's grape-growing tradition, was completed in July 2010. The station has a single side platform serving a single bi-directional track and is unstaffed.

Notes

When the early-1980s pop trio Tanokin Trio — which included Toshihiko Tahara — was at its peak, the station's name became a talking point and some fans made a special trip to visit it; its name board was at one time covered in fans' graffiti.

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