Ashiya (JR West)

Known weekday departures: 536/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 536/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:18 / 24:26 (00:26 next day)

Busiest hour (known departures): 8:00–9:00 (34)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• Tokaido Main Line: Sakurashukugawa ⇄ Konan-yamate

Ashiya Station opened on 1 August 1913 on the JNR Tōkaidō Main Line between Nishinomiya and Sumiyoshi, in present-day Ashiya City, Hyōgo Prefecture, after a petition and a 10,000-yen construction donation from the surrounding Seidō Village. Originally there were only about 80 passengers a day; the station was severely flooded by the Hanshin Great Flood of 1938, an overhead station building was built above the tracks in 1969, and the Monte Mare station building opened in October 1980. Following the JNR breakup it passed to JR West on 1 April 1987 and adopted the JR Kobe Line nickname in March 1988. The 1995 Hanshin Awaji earthquake destroyed the station, which was restored within about three weeks. Special Rapid services began stopping all day from 1 December 2003, and a multi-year renovation programme concluded in July 2023.

The station's name was deliberately drawn from a long-defunct village called Ashiya rather than the contemporary Seidō, on the grounds that the older name had more brand recognition; the city itself adopted Ashiya in 1940.