Hanakuma_Station
Hanakuma Station
Railway station in Kobe, Japan
Hanakuma Station (花隈駅, Hanakuma-eki, station number: HK-17) is a train station on the Hankyu Railway Kobe Kosoku Line in Chūō-ku, Kobe, Japan.
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Hanakuma Station 花隈 | |||||||||||
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 Apartment building over the station entrance | |||||||||||
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| Location | 3 Motomachikōkadōri, Chuo, Kobe, Hyōgo （神戸市灘区宮山町三丁目） Japan | ||||||||||
| Operated by | Hankyu Corporation | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Kobe Main Line | ||||||||||
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| Station code | HK-17 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 7 April 1968 | ||||||||||
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Layout
There are two eight-car-long side platforms at 2nd basement level serving two tracks.
| 1 | ■ Kōbe Kōsoku Line | for Kosoku Kobe, Shinkaichi and the Sanyo Railway Main Line (Akashi, Himeji) Change trains at Shinkaichi for the Shintetsu Line |
| 2 | ■ Kōbe Kōsoku Line | for Kobe-sannomiya, Nishinomiya-kitaguchi and Osaka-umeda Change to the Imazu Line at Nishinomiya-kitaguchi for Takarazuka, and to the Kyoto Line at Juso for Kyoto-kawaramachi |
Services
Trains run 0455-0020 every day. The typical hourly off-peak weekday service is:
- 8 trains to Kobe-sannomiya, of which:
- 6 continue to Umeda as limited expresses (Kobe-sannomiya, Okamoto, Shukugawa, Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi, Jūsō, Umeda)
- 8 trains to Shinkaichi, of which:
- 2 continue to Himeji as locals (alternatively passengers can change at Kōsoku-Kōbe).
Hanakuma Station opened on 7 April 1968.[1]
The station was damaged by the Great Hanshin earthquake in January 1995. Restoration work on the Kobe Line took 7 months to complete.[2]
Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with Hanakuma being designated as station number HK-17.[3]
- 兵庫の鉄道全駅 私鉄・公営鉄道 [All railway stations in Hyogo Private railways and public railways] (in Japanese). Japan: Kobe Shimbun. 2012. p. 206. ISBN 9784343006745.
- 曽根, 悟 (October 2010). "週刊 歴史でめぐる鉄道全路線 大手私鉄" [Weekly History of all Railway Lines: Major private railways]. Weekly Asahi Encyclopedia (in Japanese). 12 (Hanshin Electric Railway Hankyu Electric Railway 2): 27–29. ISBN 978-4-02-340142-6.
- "「西山天王山」駅開業にあわせて、「三宮」「服部」「中山」「松尾」４駅の駅名を変更し、全駅で駅ナンバリングを導入します" ["Sannomiya" "Hattori" "Nakayama" "Matsuo" along with the opening of "Nishiyama Tennozan" station. We will change the station names of 4 stations and introduce station numbering at all stations.] (PDF). Hankyu Corporation Online. 30 April 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 April 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2022.