is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

Hyōgo-ku, Kobe is one of nine wards of Japan, wards of Kobe, Japan. It has an area of 14.68 km2 and a population of 109,144 (as of 2020). The area's location with a natural harbour near the Akashi Strait which links Osaka Bay and the Seto inland sea has ...

Hyōgo Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 () and a geographic area of . Hyōgo Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the east, Osaka Prefecture to th ...

, Japan, operated by the

West Japan Railway Company , also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, ...

(JR West).

Lines

Hyōgo Station is served by the

Sanyo Main Line is a former Japanese electronics manufacturer founded in 1947 by Toshio Iue, the brother-in-law of Kōnosuke Matsushita, the founder of Matsushita Electric Industrial, now known as Panasonic. Iue left Matsushita Electric to start his own busi ...

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), and also forms the terminus for the Wadamisaki Line branchline.

Station layout

History

Station numbering Station numbering is a sign system which assigns station codes consisting of a few letters and numbers to train stations. It aims to facilitate navigation for foreign travelers not familiar with the local language by using globally understood c ...

was introduced to the Kobe Line in March 2018 with Hyōgo being assigned station number JR-A64.

Adjacent stations

References

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Sanyō Main Line Railway stations in Kobe Railway stations in Japan opened in 1888 {{Hyōgo-railstation-stub