is a railway station on the

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Nada-ku, Kobe is one of nine wards of Kobe, Japan. It has an area of 31.4 km², and a population of 129,095 (2008). A leading national university in Japan, Kobe University, is located in this ward, as is the city's Oji Zoo. The Tadao Ando-designed Hy ...

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, operated by the

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operator

Hanshin Electric Railway is a Japanese private railway company of 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 the c ...

Overview

The station has two elevated

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 serving two tracks.

Layout

Surrounding area

Maya Station is a passenger railway station located in Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West). Lines Maya Station is served by the Tōkaidō Main Line (JR Kobe Line), and is located 583.7 k ...

on the

JR Kobe Line The is the nickname of portions of the Tokaido Main Line and the Sanyo Main Line, between Osaka Station in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture and Himeji Station in Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture. The line, along with the JR Kyoto Line and the Biwako Line, form ...

(opening March 2016) * Iwaya Intersection where

Japan National Route 2 is a major highway on the islands of Honshū and Kyūshū in Japan. It follows the old Sanyōdo westward from the city of Osaka, Osaka Prefecture in the Kansai region to the city of Kitakyūshū in Fukuoka Prefecture, passing through the Sa ...

( 国道2号) and

Japan National Route 43 National Route 43 is a national highway of Japan connecting Nishinari-ku, Osaka is one of the 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It contains some shopping and entertainment areas, such as Tamade. It lies directly south of the Namba transport hub and ...

( 国道43号) merge.

History

Nishinada Station opened on the Hanshin Main Line on 1 July 1927. Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with Kasuganomichi being designated as station number HS-29.

Gallery

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Sanyo Electric Railway is a Japanese private railway operating company based in western Hyōgo Prefecture. It runs local and express rail service between Himeji and Kobe, and also connects directly with Hanshin Main Line to Osaka. Although the Hanshin Electric Rai ...

trainset passing by the station

References

External links

Station website
{{Hanshin Main Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1927 Railway stations in Hyōgo Prefecture