is a passenger
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...
located in the city of
Takarazuka Hyōgo Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 () and has a geographic area of . Hyōgo Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the east, Osaka Prefecture to the southeast, an ...
,
Japan
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. It is operated by the private transportation company
Hankyu Railway
, trading as , is a Japanese private railway company that provides commuter and interurban service to the northern Kansai region and is one of the flagship properties of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., in turn part of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group ...
.
It is located near
JRA Hanshin Racecourse and
Kwansei Gakuin University. It is also an entrance station to
Mount Kabutoyama
{{nihongo, Mount Kabuto, 甲山, Kabuto-yama is a mountain in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan. It is located in the east end of the Rokko Mountains, and the height is 309.2m.
Outline
Mount Kabuto is a famous picnic spot in the Kansai metropolitan ...
, the east end of the
Rokkō Mountains.
Lines
Nigawa Station is served by the
Hankyu Imazu Line
, trading as , is a Japanese private railway company that provides commuter and interurban service to the northern Kansai region and is one of the flagship properties of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., in turn part of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Gro ...
, and is located 4.5 kilometers from the
terminus of the line at and 18.8 kilometers from .
Layout
The station consists of two opposed ground-level
side platform
A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...
s, with an addition side platform on the inbound line in the direction of Nishinomiya Kitaguchi. Each platform is connected by underground passages in two places, north and south, connecting to two ticket gates, east and west. The main entrance is the east ticket gate, which has a window, an automatic ticket vending machine, a shop, and a toilet. Since it is also the exit for the racecourse, there are many automatic ticket gates, The additional side platform has its own temporary ticket gate,
Platforms
Adjacent stations
History
Nigawa Station opened on December 28, 1923. The name 'Nigawa' is originally the name of the river on the border of Takarazuka city and
Nishinomiya
270px, Nishinomiya City Hall
270px, Aerial view of Nishinomiya city center
270px, Hirota Shrine
is a city located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 484,368 in 218948 households and a population density of 48 ...
city, and today
Nigawa is used as the name of a town along the river of both cities. During the times of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
(12/15/1943 - 9/21/1945), there was a station between Nigawa and Obayashi named . The station was in front of the factory of
Kawanishi Aircraft Company
was a Japanese aircraft manufacturer during World War II.
History
The company was founded as Kawanishi Engineering Works in 1920 in Hyōgo Prefecture as an outgrowth of the Kawanishi conglomerate, which had been funding the Nakajima Aircraft Co ...
, a predecessor of
ShinMaywa
, romanized_name = Shin-Meiwa Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha
, former_name = ShinMeiwa Industries, Ltd.
, type = K.K.
, industry = Transportation, Machine, Defense
, traded_as =
, fate =
, predecessor = Kawanishi Aircraft Company
, success ...
Industries, Ltd. The factory was closed after
GHQ ordered the company to stop manufacturing aircraft. In 1949, JRA Hanshin Racecourse was built on the vacant lot. In 2002, the station installed barrier-free facilities for the elderly and the disabled.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 24,998 passengers daily
Surrounding area
*
Hanshin Racecourse
*
Kwansei Gakuin University
*Kwansei Gakuin Junior High School
*Kwansei Galuin Senior High School
*Nigawa Gakuin
*
ShinMaywa
, romanized_name = Shin-Meiwa Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha
, former_name = ShinMeiwa Industries, Ltd.
, type = K.K.
, industry = Transportation, Machine, Defense
, traded_as =
, fate =
, predecessor = Kawanishi Aircraft Company
, success ...
See also
*
List of railway stations in Japan
The links below contain all of the 8579 railway stations in Japan.
External links
{{Portal bar, Japan, Trains
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Railway stations
Japan
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References
External links
Nigawa Station (Hankyu Railway)
Railway stations in Hyōgo Prefecture
Hankyu Railway Imazu Line
Stations of Hankyu Railway
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1923
Takarazuka, Hyōgo
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