Rokkō Station

Rokkō Station 六甲駅
Station building incorporating bus platforms
Location	Miyayamacho Sanchome, Nada, Kobe, Hyōgo （神戸市灘区宮山町三丁目） Japan
Operated by	Hankyu Corporation
Line(s)	Kobe Main Line
Connections	Bus terminal
Other information
Station code	HK-13
History
Opened	1920
Traffic
Passengers ([1])	6,977,000

Rokkō Station (六甲駅, Rokkō-eki, station number: HK-13) is a railway station in Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, on the Hankyu Railway Kobe Line operated by Hankyu Railway. It is located near Kobe University and Kobe Shoin University. The Hankyu Bus leaves from the station for Mount Rokko, and city bus services connect with the Rokko Cable Line, Sannomiya and Rokkomichi stations on the JR Kobe Line and Mikage Station on the Hanshin Electric Railway Main Line.

Layout

Rokko Station is the only station operated by Hankyu Corporation having two side platforms serving a siding track each outside of the passing tracks. When the station was opened in 1920, it had two island platforms serving two tracks each on the ground. The island platforms were removed and the side ones were situated outside of the siding tracks by 1968 for the preparation of the through operation with the Sanyo Railway Main Line and the eight-car operation on the Kobe Line.

The through operation by Sanyo Railway was continued until February 1998 with starting and terminating this station and the trains returned at the siding track in the west of adjacent Mikage Station as deadhead trains.

Adjacent stations

References

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Coordinates: 34°43′11.42″N 135°14′3.80″E / 34.7198389°N 135.2343889°E / 34.7198389; 135.2343889