Kuroi (Hyogo)

Weekday departures: 48/day · Sat & holiday departures: 48/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:21 / 23:46

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (5)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Fukuchiyama Line: Ichijima ⇄ Isō

Kuroi Station opened on 15 July 1899 at Kuroi, Kasuga-chō, Tamba, Hyōgo Prefecture, as a station on the Hankaku Railway when the line was extended from Kashiwara to Fukuchiyama-Minamiguchi (the former Fukuchi Station, now demolished). The Hankaku Railway was nationalised on 1 August 1907, the Hankaku Line was designated under the 12 October 1909 line-name regulation, and on 1 March 1912 the section south of Fukuchiyama was renamed the Fukuchiyama Line. The station building was rebuilt in June 1956. Freight handling ended on 1 April 1973, parcel handling on 14 March 1985, and the station passed to JR West at the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. From 1 April 1992 it came under the Sasayamaguchi Railway Sub-Bureau, returning to Fukuchiyama Branch direct management at the sub-bureau's abolition on 1 June 2009 (becoming a station managed by Sasayamaguchi). The ICOCA IC card became usable on 13 March 2021, and on 1 July 2021 station operations were transferred from JR West Fukuchiyama Mentec to JR West Transport Service. On 1 October 2022 the line came under the Fukuchiyama Management Division of the Kinki Statistical Headquarters, with Kuroi managed by Fukuchiyama. On 20 February 2024 a Midori ticket machine was installed; the ticket window closed on 15 March 2024, and the station became fully unstaffed on 1 April 2024.

Because of another Kuroi Station on the Shin'etsu Main Line in Niigata (different railway, also written 黒井), tickets originating from this Hyōgo station carry the disambiguating prefix "(福) 黒井" — "Fuku" for Fukuchiyama Line — just as Nii Station on the Banta Line carries "(播) 新井."