Sonoda Station

Sonoda Station

園田駅
Sonoda Station; 園田駅
	Station building (north side)
General information
Location	Higashi-Sonodacho, Amagasaki, Hyōgo; （兵庫県尼崎市東園田町）; Japan
Coordinates	34°45′7.22″N 135°26′53.55″E / 34.7520056°N 135.4482083°E
Operated by	Hankyu Corporation
Line(s)	Kobe Line
Services
Hankyu Railway Kōbe Main Line (HK-05)
	Limited Express: Does not stop at this station
	Morning Commutation Limited Express: Does not stop at this station
	Rapid Express: Does not stop at this station
	Express: Does not stop at this station
	Commutation Express: Does not stop at this station
	Semi-Express for Umeda: Does not stop at this station

Sonoda station (園田駅, Sonoda-eki) is a station on the Hankyu Kobe Line operated by Hankyu Railway in Japan.

Overview

Layout

There are two island platforms and an island platform serving 4 tracks elevated.

1, 2	■ Kobe Line	for Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi, Kōbe (Kobe-Sannomiya, Shinkaichi) and Takarazuka
3, 4	■ Kobe Line	for Ōsaka (Umeda), Kyōto, Kita-Senri and Minoo
	■	Used for getting off the local trains from Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi when horse racing is held

Surrounding area

Although technically situated in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, it is a five-minute walk to the neighboring Osaka Prefecture. Trains run from Umeda to Kobe-sannomiya at ten-minute intervals, with the frequency of Umeda-bound trains increasing into rush hour.

Below the station itself exists a small shopping centre called Sonoda Hankyu Plaza (園田阪急プラザ) which undertook a major renovation completed at the end of April 2006. It now consists of many restaurants, a Matsumoto Kiyoshi pharmacy, a Mister Donut, a branch of the Kohyo chain of supermarket, a Docomo mobile phone shop as well as various smaller retailers.

Despite the station being named Sonoda, the name of the area it is found in is actually slightly different. The specific location of the station is Higashi-Sonoda (東園田町) and so this can unfortunately sometimes result in confusion.

History

Sonoda Station opened on 20 October 1936.^[1]

The station was transformed from a surface-level station to an elevated station in 1980. Work took 2 years to complete.^[2]

Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with Sonoda being designated as station number HK-05.^[3]

References

^ 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). No. 12 (Hanshin Electric Railway Hankyu Electric Railway 2): 27–29. ISBN 978-4-02-340142-6. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
^ 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 Newspaper General Publishing Center. 2012. ISBN 9784343006745.
^ "「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.

External links

Station website (in Japanese)

[:0-1] 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). No. 12 (Hanshin Electric Railway Hankyu Electric Railway 2): 27–29. ISBN 978-4-02-340142-6. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

[2] 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 Newspaper General Publishing Center. 2012. ISBN 9784343006745.

[3] "「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.

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