is the name of two separate passenger

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s located in the city of

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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 ...

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. One is operated by the private transportation company

Hanshin Electric Railway is a Japanese private railway company owned by 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 ...

and web other by the private transportation company

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. The two stations are connected with a passage.

Lines

Imazu Station is served by the

Hanshin Main Line The is a railway line operated by the private railway company Hanshin Electric Railway in Japan. It connects the two cities of Osaka and Kobe, between and stations respectively. Outline The Main Line of Hanshin is the southernmost railw ...

for which it is station number HS-16, and is located 15.4.0 kilometers from the

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of the line at . It is also served by the

Hankyū Imazu Line The is a 9.3 km long commuter rail line in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan owned and operated by the private railway operator Hankyu Railway. It is the longest of three branchlines of the Hankyu Kobe Line. The line connects the cities of Nishino ...

for which it is station number HK-21, and is 9.3 kilometers from the terminus of that line at

Hanshin Main Line

Layout

The station operated by Hanshin Railway was elevated in 2001. The station has two

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 a track each on the 3rd level. Ticket gates and ticket machines are located on the 2nd level. The 170-m platforms are servable for the EMUs owned by Hanshin Railway and those by Kintetsu.

History

The current Imazu Station opened at this location on the Hanshin Main Line on 19 December 1926. It was also on this date that the original Imazu station to the east was renamed to Kusugawa Station. Originally a surface-level station, the tracks once continued onto the Hanshin Main Line. This configuration was abolished after 1949 after a runaway train ran from the Imazu Line to the Hanshin Main Line at Kusugawa station. Service was suspended owing to the

Great Hanshin earthquake The Great Hanshin Earthquake (, ) occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region of Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum intensity of 7 o ...

in January 1995. Restoration work on the Hanshin Main Line took 7 months to complete. The station was shifted to an elevated structure on 3 March 2001. Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with the Hanshin station being designated as station number HS-16. In 2019, the platforms were extended to the west by about 10 meters. This was done to enable a stop for 8-car long through services to and from the Kintetsu Nara Line.

Gallery

File:Hanshin Imazu Station - panoramio (21).jpg, Station sign File:Hanshin Imazu Station - panoramio (4).jpg, Station concourse in 2010

Hankyu Imazu Line

Layout

The station is served by a single dead-end elevated

island platform An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...

serving two tracks.

History

Imazu Station opened on the Hanshin Main Line on 18 December 1926. The tracks from the Hankyu Line ran through to the Hanshin Main Line until 1949, when an

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failure caused a runaway train to run from the Hankyu Line to the Hanshin Main Line. The trainset, a Hankyu 600 series, continued for about 700 meters east until it hit the platforms at Kusugawa Station. The Imazu Line was damaged by the

in January 1995. Restoration work on this line took a few days to complete, which the entire southern portion re-opening for service on 5 February 1995. The current elevated platforms opened on 16 December 1995. Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with the station being designated as station number HK-21.

Gallery

File:Hankyu Imazu Station platform - panoramio.jpg, Station platforms in 2013 File:Hankyu Imazu Station ticket gate - panoramio.jpg, Ticketing area File:Hankyu Imazu Station platform - panoramio (6).jpg, View facing north

Surroundings

*Jogan-ji *

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Notes

References

External links

Hankyu station website

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Hanshin Main Line

Layout

History

Gallery

Hankyu Imazu Line

Layout

History

Gallery

Surroundings

See also

Notes

References

External links