Nada Station (灘駅) is a ground-level station with a station building over the tracks, in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture. West Japan Railway Company runs it. It opened on 1 December 1917 as a passenger-only station.
History
Nada Station opened on 1 December 1917 as a passenger-only station on the national Tōkaidō Main Line, between the first Nada Station and Sannomiya Station. On 1 April 1987 the station passed to West Japan Railway Company (JR West). On 13 March 1988 the line was given the name JR Kobe Line. On 17 January 1995 the Great Hanshin–Awaji Earthquake closed the station. On 20 February 1995 the section between Nada and Kobe reopened. On 1 April 1995 the section between Sumiyoshi and Nada reopened, and the whole JR Kobe Line was back in service.
On 8 March 1997 the standard approach melody Sazanami (さざなみ) was introduced. On 29 November 1997 automatic ticket gates opened. On 29 July 2002 the Kyoto and Kobe Lines operation control system was introduced. On 1 November 2003 ICOCA became usable. In November 2006 work began to rebuild the station building. On 23 September 2009 the new station building over the tracks opened, with lifts, escalators and a multi-purpose toilet.
On 19 March 2012 turnback facilities came into use. On 12 March 2015 the approach melody was changed back to a revised version of Sazanami. On 17 March 2018 station numbering was introduced.
On 30 September 2022 the Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed. On 1 October 2022 a Midori ticket machine plus started operating.
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