Okamoto Station (Hyōgo)
Okamoto Station (岡本駅, Okamoto-eki, station number: HK-11) is a railway station on the Hankyu Kobe Line in Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, between Mikage Station and Ashiyagawa Station.
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| Location | Okamoto Gochome, Higashinada, Kobe, Hyōgo （神戸市東灘区岡本五丁目） Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°43′44.78″N 135°16′32.63″E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Hankyu Corporation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Kobe Main Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | HK-11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1920 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| [1] | 6,905,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Overview
Station Layout
Okamoto is an elevated station. It is served by two side platforms serving two tracks.
| 1 | ■ Kobe Line | for Kobe-sannomiya, Shinkaichi and the Sanyo Railway Main Line |
| 2 | ■ Kobe Line | for Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi, Ōsaka (Umeda), Kyōto and Takarazuka |
Surrounding area
- Settsu-Motoyama Station (JR Kōbe Line)
- Konan University（甲南大学）
- Konan Women's University（甲南女子大学）
- Konan Girls' Junior and Senior High School（甲南女子中学校・高等学校）
- Kobe Pharmaceutical University（神戸薬科大学）
- Yamate Road（山手幹線）
- Okamoto Bairin Park（岡本梅林公園）
In the area around Okamoto Station, there are two famous 'Bairin', spots to see plum flowers in early spring. Those are Okamoto Bairin and Hokura Bairin.
Buses
- Kobe City Bus
- Route 30 for Hanshin Fukae, Higashinada Senior High School, and Fukae-Hamamachi
- Route 31 for JR Konan-Yamate / for Uzumoridai
- Route 33 for JR Konan-Yamate / for Hanshin Mikage Minamiguchi
- Route 34 for JR Konan-Yamate / for Uozaki-Hamamachi
- Kobe Minato Kanko
- Route 11 directly to Rokko Island
- Route 12 for Hanshin Mikage and Rokko Island / for Shukugawa Green Town (Hankyu Shukugawa Station)
History
Okamoto Station opened on 16 July 1920.[2]
The level crossing on the station premises were removed in 1967 while the station building was reconstructed in 1979.[3]
The station was damaged by the Great Hanshin earthquake in January 1995. Restoration work on the Kobe Line took 7 months to complete.[2]
Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with Okamoto being designated as station number HK-11.[4]
References
- Kobe city statistics Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine April 2008–March 2009. Number of boarding passengers.
- 曽根, 悟 (October 2010). "週刊 歴史でめぐる鉄道全路線 大手私鉄" [Weekly History of all Railway Lines: Major private railways]. Weekly Asahi Encyclopedia (in Japanese). No. 12 (Hanshin Electric Railway Hankyu Electric Railway 2): 27–29. ISBN 978-4-02-340142-6.
- 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.
- "「西山天王山」駅開業にあわせて、「三宮」「服部」「中山」「松尾」４駅の駅名を変更し、全駅で駅ナンバリングを導入します" ["Sannomiya" "Hattori" "Nakayama" "Matsuo" along with the opening of "Nishiyama Tennozan" station. We will change the station names of 4 stations and introduce station numbering at all stations.] (PDF). Hankyu Corporation Online. 30 April 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 April 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2022.