Ōji-kōen Station
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 Hankyu Ōji-kōen Station entrance (2014) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Chūō-ku, Kobe Hyōgo Prefecture Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°42′37″N 135°13′08″E / 34.710260°N 135.218917°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Hankyu Railway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Hankyū Kōbe Main Line | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | HK-14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1 April 1936 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ōji-kōen Station (王子公園駅, Ōji-kōen-eki) is a railway station in Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It is located at the southeastern corner of Ōji Park, which includes Ōji Stadium and the city zoo (Ōji Zoo).
Layout
[edit]Ōji-kōen is an elevated station. It is served by two side platforms serving two tracks.
| 1 | ■ Kobe Line | for Kobe-sannomiya, Shinkaichi and Sanyo Electric Railway |
| 2 | ■ Kobe Line | for Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi, Osaka (Umeda), Kyoto and Takarazuka |
History
[edit]The station opened on 1 April 1936.[1]
The station building was relocated in October 1956.[2]
Ōji-kōen Station was damaged by the Great Hanshin earthquake in January 1995. Restoration work on the Kobe Line took 7 months to complete.[1]
Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with Ōji-kōen being designated as station number HK-14.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.