Sumakaihinkōen

Weekday departures: 275/day · Sat & holiday departures: 275/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:04 / 24:55

Busiest hour: 10:00–11:00 (17)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• JR Sanyō Main Line: Takatori (Hyogo) ⇄ Suma

Sumakaihinkōen Station opened on 15 March 2008 as a new infill station on JR West's San'yō Main Line (JR Kobe Line) in Suma-ku, Kobe. Construction was financed entirely by JR West rather than petitioned by the municipality, and the original plan to open simultaneously with Sakurashukugawa Station on 18 March 2007 slipped by a year because of construction delays. Only local trains stop here, served by a single island platform built into the electrified pair of tracks; the freight bypass and Shin-Kaisoku tracks run past unstopped. Station numbering JR-A67 was adopted on 17 March 2018.

From opening in 2008 until July 2014, the approaching-train chime at Sumakaihinkōen was a rearrangement of "Kamome no Suihei-san" ("Mr Seagull Sailor")—a nursery song chosen for the beach beside the platform—before being replaced with JR Kobe Line's standard "Sazanami" melody.