Ōishi Station

Ōishi Station

大石駅
Ōishi Station; 大石駅
	Ōishi Station in November 2019
General information
Location	Funadera-Dōri 1-chōme, Nada, Kobe, Hyōgo; （神戸市灘区船寺通一丁目）; Japan
Coordinates	34°42′27.98″N 135°13′51.57″E / 34.7077722°N 135.2309917°E
Operated by	Hanshin Electric Railway
Line(s)	Main Line
Connections	Bus stop
Other information
Station code	HS 28
History
Opened	1905
Passengers
2005	8,934 daily
Services
Hanshin Main Line (HS 28)
	Rapid Express: Does not stop at this station
	Limited Express; Through Limited Express: Does not stop at this station

Ōishi Station (大石駅, Ōishi-eki) is a railway station on the Hanshin Electric Railway Main Line in Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.

Overview

Layout

This station is elevated and has two island platforms serving two tracks each, and crossovers are located on both sides of the platforms enabling to depart from any track for Osaka and Kobe Sannomiya.

1	■ Main Line	Used for dead-head trains and returning trains using Sanyo Railway EMUs
2	■ Main Line	for Koshien, Amagasaki, Osaka (Umeda, Namba), and Nara
3	■ Main Line	for Kobe Sannomiya, Kosoku Kobe, Akashi, and Himeji
4	■ Main Line	Used for dead-head trains

History

Nishinada Station opened on the Hanshin Main Line on 12 April 1905.^[1]

Service was suspended owing to the Great Hanshin earthquake in January 1995. Restoration work on the Hanshin Main Line took 7 months to complete.^[1]

Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with Kasuganomichi being designated as station number HS-28.^[2]

Gallery

Station entrance in 2019
Station platforms in 2015
Station nameplate

References

^ ^a ^b 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.
^ "阪神「三宮」を「神戸三宮」に駅名変更のうえ、駅ナンバリングを導入し、全てのお客さまに分かりやすい駅を目指します" [After changing the station name from Hanshin "Sannomiya" to "Kobe Sannomiya", Introduced station numbering, Aiming for a station that is easy for all customers to understand] (PDF). Hanshin News Online (in Japanese). 30 April 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 April 2021. Retrieved 27 February 2022.

External links

Station website (in Japanese)

[:0-1] 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.

[2] "阪神「三宮」を「神戸三宮」に駅名変更のうえ、駅ナンバリングを導入し、全てのお客さまに分かりやすい駅を目指します" [After changing the station name from Hanshin "Sannomiya" to "Kobe Sannomiya", Introduced station numbering, Aiming for a station that is easy for all customers to understand] (PDF). Hanshin News Online (in Japanese). 30 April 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 April 2021. Retrieved 27 February 2022.

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