is an elevated station on the
Hanshin Electric Railway
is a Japanese private railway company owned by Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group that links Osaka and Kobe. It also owns the Hanshin Tigers baseball team.
The first character for Kobe (神戸) and the second character for Osaka (大阪) combine to form ...
Main Line in Japan, with trains travelling east to Hanshin's terminal in (Osaka), and west to central Kobe ( and ). At Motomachi, number of limited express trains carry on along the Sanyo Railway to
Himeji
260px, Himeji City Hall
is a city located in Hyōgo Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 525,682 in 227,099 households and a population density of 980 persons per km2. The total area of the city is ...
city. This section of the track will be elevated, in keeping with the majority of the line.
Layout
The station has four tracks with two island platforms.
On the days of the events at Hanshin Koshien Stadium, trains stand by at Line 1 and go to Koshien Station to be extra trains for Umeda.
Surroundings
*Sunshine Wharf Kobe (サンシャインワーフ神戸)
History
Ōgi Station opened on April 12, 1905 along with the rest of the Hanshin Main Line.
On January 17, 1995, the station was damaged by the
Great Hanshin earthquake
The Great Hanshin Earthquake (, ) occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region of Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum intensity of 7 o ...
. Service in the affected area was restored by June 26, 1995.
Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with Ōgi being designated as station number HS-22.
Between April 2009 and November 2019, the line between
Sumiyoshi Station and
Ashiya Station underwent grade separation.
The elevated westbound tracks opened for service in December 2015 while the eastbound tracks opened for service on November 30, 2019.
Gallery
File:202201 Hanshin Main Line Ōgi Station Platform 03.jpg, Elevated platforms as seen in 2022
File:Ogi-kaisatsu-new.jpg, Station concourse at the conclusion of grade separation work
References
External links
Station website (in Japanese)
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Railway stations in Japan opened in 1905
Railway stations in Hyōgo Prefecture