Another economic activity supported by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is of rearing pigs and growing mushrooms.
This station is located near Iwaya Station of the Hanshin Main Line, and an entrance to HAT Kobe (includes Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo International Center of JICA, WHO Kobe Center and Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution).
Japan, through its agency JICA, finances the expansion of the existing system in the capital, Juba.