is a passenger

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located in

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. It is operated by the private transportation company

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Lines

Okamoto Station is served by the

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, and is located from the

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of the line at .

Layout

The station consists of two opposed

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, connected by an underground passage.

Platforms

History

Okamoto Station opened on 16 July 1920. The level crossing on the station premises were removed in 1967 while the station building was reconstructed in 1979. The station was damaged by the

Great Hanshin earthquake The , or Kobe earthquake, occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST (January 16 at 20:46:53 UTC) in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region known as Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and had ...

in January 1995. Restoration work on the Kobe Line took 7 months to complete. Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with Okamoto being designated as station number HK-11.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 28,105 passengers daily

Surrounding area

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(

JR Kōbe 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, f ...

) *

Konan University is a university on the slopes of Mount Rokkō in Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Japan. A private university with approximately 10,000 students, it offers a wide variety of programs to Japanese students, as well as an international exchange program throu ...

( 甲南大学) *

Konan Women's University is a private women's college in Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by ...

( 甲南女子大学) *Konan Girls' Junior and Senior High School ( 甲南女子中学校・高等学校) * Kobe Pharmaceutical University ( 神戸薬科大学) *Yamate Road ( 山手幹線) *Okamoto Bairin Park ( 岡本梅林公園) In the area around Okamoto Station, there are two famous 'Bairin', spots to see plum flowers in early spring. Those are Okamoto Bairin and Hokura Bairin.

Buses

;Kobe City Bus *Route 30 for , Higashinada Senior High School, and Fukae-Hamamachi *Route 31 for JR Konan-Yamate / for Uzumoridai *Route 33 for JR Konan-Yamate / for *Route 34 for JR Konan-Yamate / for Uozaki-Hamamachi ;Kobe Minato Kanko *Route 11 directly to Rokko Island *Route 12 for Hanshin Mikage and Rokko Island / for Shukugawa Green Town (Hankyu

Shukugawa Station is a passenger railway station located in the Aioichō neighborhood of the city of Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company Hankyu Railway. Lines Shukugawa Station is served ...

)

References

External links

Okamoto Station website
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