Kawanishi-Ikeda

Known weekday departures: 324/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 324/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 4:58 / 24:30 (00:30 next day)

Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (23)

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).

• Fukuchiyama Line: Nakayamadera ⇄ Kita-Itami

Kawanishi-Ikeda Station opened on 12 December 1893 as Ikeda Station, the terminus of the Settsu Railway, despite being on the Kawanishi side of the Ina River — the Ikeda settlement on the opposite bank was simply more prosperous at the time. The Hankaku Railway absorbed the line in 1897 and the station was nationalised in 1907. After decades of petitioning, the station was renamed Kawanishi-Ikeda on 1 August 1951, combining both place names as a compromise. When the Fukuchiyama Line was electrified and double-tracked the station was rebuilt in its present passing-loop layout and moved onto the site of the former freight yard, and JR West took over at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Station numbering JR-G54 was introduced in March 2018.

Kawanishi-Ikeda is an unusual station name in that it juxtaposes the names of two cities in two different prefectures: Kawanishi in Hyōgo, where the station stands, and Ikeda in Osaka, on the far side of the Ina River. Its long-standing rival, the Hankyu and Nose Electric Railway station Kawanishi-Noseguchi, is about 550 m away — roughly a six-minute walk — reached by a covered pedestrian deck.