is a

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located in

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, but is on the border with

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to the south and

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to the east. It serves as a transfer point for the

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on one side and on the other side is an express station on the

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．The station has five platforms connected by tunnels, two for Osaka-Takarazuka service, and three for Minoo service. The station is near to one of the three campuses of

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, though the campus is physically located in neighbouring Toyonaka City. The station is surrounded by bars,

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boxes, and

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restaurants along with more traditional small-stall shopping streets. The word Ishibashi literally means Stone Bridge, referring to the old stone street bridge immediately north of the station over a small river that serves as the northern end of the shopping area, which is called ''Akai hashi''.

Layout

There are three platforms with five tracks on the ground level.

History

The station opened concurrently with the opening of the Takarazuka Line and the Mino-o Line on 10 March 1910. Since then the structure of the station as an interchange of the two lines has not been largely changed except for the stretched platforms. On 25 June 1952, hours before the first scheduled train of the day, hundreds of protesters against the

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who left a meeting at the Osaka University campus thronged Ishibashi Station and forced station master to run a train to transport them to Osaka. After getting off the forcedly operated train at Hattori Station, they marched and burst into Suita Classification Yard of

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. As a result, more than one hundred people were arrested on charge of

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. The incident is called the

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. On October 1, 2019, the station was renamed from Ishibashi to Ishibashi handai-mae,

Adjacent stations

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References

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Ishibashi Station (Hankyu Railway)
{{Hankyu Minoo Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1910 Railway stations in Osaka Prefecture Osaka University transportation

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Adjacent stations

See also

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