Befu (Hyogo)

Weekday departures: 11/day · Sat & holiday departures: 47/day

First / last train (weekday): 7:39 / 24:14

Busiest hour: 20:00–21:00 (4)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line: Hamanomiya ⇄ Harimachō

Befu Station opened as Befu-kitaguchi Station on 19 August 1923 with the inauguration of the Kobe-Himeji Electric Railway. On 1 April 1927 the line was absorbed by Ujigawa Electric, and on 6 June 1933 Ujigawa's railway division separated to form Sanyō Electric Railway. The station was renamed Dentetsu-Befu Station on 1 April 1944 because the surrounding Befu town centre, despite being named 'kitaguchi' (north entrance), had grown to be the area's representative location. It became an express stop on 1 March 1948. Express service was discontinued on 25 March 1984 and replaced by a Takasago-bound limited express stopping at every station west of Higashi-Futami (later merged into the S-Limited Express). The station building moved beneath the elevated tracks on 25 July 1988, and the station was renamed Befu Station on 7 April 1991. From 22 February 2025, all limited express and through limited express trains began stopping here throughout the day.

The station sits on an embankment immediately south of the Sanyō Shinkansen viaduct in Kakogawa, Hyōgo (station number SY 28). The original name 'Befu-kitaguchi' was chosen to distinguish it from Befu-kō Station on the now-defunct Beppu Railway nearby, which until 1984 crossed beneath the elevated tracks. The 1988 reconstruction relocated the station building from the western embankment of the down-line platform - which had been connected to the up-line platform by an in-station footpath crossing - to a single ground-level concourse. The Sanyō version uses the reading 'Be-fu', unlike the more famous Beppu (べっぷ) hot-spring city in Ōita.