Nishinomiya (JR West)

Known weekday departures: 412/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 412/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:15 / 24:30 (00:30 next day)

Busiest hour (known departures): 8:00–9:00 (26)

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: Koshienguchi ⇄ Sakurashukugawa

Nishinomiya Station opened on 11 May 1874 as 西ノ宮駅 when the government railway between Osaka and Kobe — Japan's second rail line — began passenger service. The station was placed in then-rural farmland north of the established Nishinomiya township, since the Tōkaidō route was kept as straight as possible. Freight handling ceased on 1 November 1986, and the station passed from JNR to West Japan Railway Company at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Rapid Service trains, previously only rush-hour stops, began calling all day from the 1 December 2003 timetable revision. On 18 March 2007, in tandem with the opening of nearby Sakura Shukugawa Station, the Japanese name was simplified to 西宮駅 to match the city name. Station numbering JR-A52 was added in March 2018.

The katakana ノ in the original name 西ノ宮駅 is said to have been inserted by the Meiji-era Railway Bureau so that readers in Tokyo would not misread the name, though the account is not firmly established. The city had asked for many years that the character be dropped to match the city's own name, and the 2007 rename finally did so.