Shinzaike Station

Railway station in Kobe, Japan

Bus stop

Other informationStation codeHS 27HistoryOpened1905Previous namesTōmyō (until 1930)Passengers20058,466 daily Services

Hanshin Main Line (HS 27)
Ishiyagawa (HS 26)	Local	Ōishi (HS 28)
Rapid Express: Does not stop at this station
Limited Express Through Limited Express: Does not stop at this station

Shinzaike Station (新在家駅, Shinzaike-eki) is a railway station in Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.

Overview

The station has two elevated side platforms serving two tracks.

Layout

1	■ Main Line	for Koshien, Amagasaki, Osaka (Umeda), Namba, and Nara
2	■ Main Line	for Sannomiya, Kosoku Kobe, Akashi, and Himeji

Surroundings

Route 2 (国道2号) - Arterial route from Osaka to Fukuoka
Nada Ward Kobe City Office (灘区役所)^[1]
Kobe Rokko Bowl

Buses

Kobe City Bus

"Hanshin Shinzaike" stop of Route 103 for JR Rokkomichi (JR六甲道) and Shogun Dori (将軍通り)^[2]

Hanshin Bus

"Nada Kuyakusho Mae" stop for Hanshin Nishinomiya (阪神西宮) and Kobe Zeikan Mae (神戸税関前)

History

Shinzaike Station opened on the Hanshin Main Line on 12 April 1905 under a different name (Tōmyō station).^[3] It was renamed to its current name in 1930.^[3]

Service was suspended owing to the Great Hanshin earthquake in January 1995. Restoration work on the Hanshin Main Line took 7 months to complete.^[4]

Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with Shinzaike being designated as station number HS-27.^[5]

Gallery

Faregate area
A local train entering the station on track 2

References

^ Nada Ward Kobe City Office Website i nada
^ Postal Code 657-0058: Shogun Dori, Nada-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo | Japan Postal Code
^ ^a ^b 兵庫の鉄道全駅私鉄・公営鉄道 [All railway stations in Hyogo Private railways and public railways] (in Japanese). Japan: Kobe Newspaper General Publishing Center. 2012. ISBN 9784343006745.
^ 兵庫の鉄道全駅私鉄・公営鉄道 [All railway stations in Hyogo Private railways and public railways] (in Japanese). Japan: Kobe Newspaper General Publishing Center. 2012. ISBN 9784343006745.
^ "阪神「三宮」を「神戸三宮」に駅名変更のうえ、駅ナンバリングを導入し、全てのお客さまに分かりやすい駅を目指します" [After changing the station name from Hanshin "Sannomiya" to "Kobe Sannomiya", Introduced station numbering, Aiming for a station that is easy for all customers to understand] (PDF). Hanshin News Online (in Japanese). 30 April 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 April 2021. Retrieved 27 February 2022.