Kōsoku Kōbe Station

Kōsoku Kōbe Station (高速神戸駅, Kōsoku Kōbe-eki, station number: HS 35) is a train station on the Hanshin Railway Kobe Kosoku Line and the Hankyu Railway Kobe Kosoku Line in Chūō-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.

Lines

• Hanshin Railway Kobe Kosoku Line
• Hankyu Railway Kobe Kosoku Line

Kobe Rapid Transit Railway Co., Ltd. owns the tracks and facilities of those railway lines as "the Tozai Line" of the Category-3 operator, and Hanshin and Hankyu operates trains running on the line as Category-2 operators.

The station is also connected to the following stations via the Duo Kobe underground shopping mall.

• West Japan Railway Company
  • Tokaido Line, Sanyo Line (JR Kobe Line) – Kobe Station
• Kobe Municipal Subway
  • Kaigan Line – Harborland Station

Layout

The station has two island platforms with four tracks underground.

History

The station opened on 7 April 1968.

Damage to the station was caused by the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995.

Station numbering was introduced on 1 April 2014.

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