is a passenger

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located in Kita-ku

Kobe Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whic ...

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 ...

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. It is operated by the private transportation company,

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(Shintetsu).

Lines

Shintetsu Dōjō Station is served by the

Shintetsu Sanda Line The is a commuter railway line in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan operated by Kobe Electric Railway. It connects Kobe with its northern suburb, Sanda. The line is long, extending from Arimaguchi in Kita-ku to Sanda, where the line connects with th ...

, and is located 8.5 kilometers from the

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of the line at , 28.5 kilometers from and 28.9 kilometers from .

Station layout

The station consists of one

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 ...

serving a single bidirectional track. The station building is elevated and is located on the edge of a hill, with a residential area on the west side and a bus stop on the hill directly accessed by stairs from the station building. In anticipation of double-tracking, the platform is designed so that it can be remodeled into an island-type platform with two tracks in the future.

Adjacent stations

History

On 18 December 1928, in tandem with the opening of the Sanda Line, was opened. It was renamed to its present name of 20 October 1991.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 1,963 passengers daily

Surrounding area

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*Kobe Municipal Kita-Kobe Junior High School

References

External links

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Railway stations in Kobe Railway stations in Japan opened in 1928 {{Hyōgo-railstation-stub