Koshien Station
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is a train station on the Hanshin Electric Railway
Main Line in Nishinomiya
, Hyōgo Prefecture
, Japan
, and the nearest station to Hanshin Koshien Stadium
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Hanshin Electric Railway
is a Japanese private railway company of Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group that links Osaka and Kobe. It also owns the Hanshin Tigers baseball team.The second character for Osaka and the first character for Kobe combine to form the company name, 阪神, which can be read Han-shin.IC cards are accepted when...
Main Line in Nishinomiya
Nishinomiya, Hyogo
is a city located in Hyōgo, Japan, between the cities of Ōsaka and Kōbe. On April 1, 2005, the city of Nishinomiya celebrated its 80th anniversary. It is best known as the home of Kōshien Stadium, where the Hanshin Tigers baseball team plays home games and where Japan's annual high school baseball...
, Hyōgo Prefecture
Hyogo Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region on Honshū island. The capital is Kobe.The prefecture's name was previously alternately spelled as Hiogo.- History :...
, Japan
Japan
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, and the nearest station to Hanshin Koshien Stadium
Koshien Stadium
is a baseball park located near Kobe in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The stadium was built to host the national high school baseball tournaments, and opened on April 1, 1924. It was the largest stadium in Asia at the time it was completed, with a capacity of 55,000.The name Kōshien comes...
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Layout
- There are two island platformIsland platformAn island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange...
s with 4 tracks between two side platformSide platformA Side platform is a platform positioned to the side of a pair of tracks at a railway station, a tram stop or a transitway. A pair of side platforms are often provided on a dual track line with a single side platform being sufficient for a single track line...
s elevated. Ticket gates are located at the east and the west, however there is stadium exit from the south side platform serving Track 4 to the west, and north exit on the opposite side of the west gate.
East
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Koshien
- KidZania
- Ito Yokado
- Koshien Post Office
- Hanshin Bus southbound stops
- for Koshien Hachibancho
- for via Koshien Hachibancho / for via Hamakoshien
- for Hamakoshien
- for Mukogawa-danchi
- for Takasu-higashi
- for Naruohama
- airport limousine for Osaka International AirportOsaka International Airportor Osaka-Itami International Airport is the primary domestic airport for the Kansai region of Japan, including the major cities of Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe. It is classified as a first class airport....
(operated by Hanshin Bus and Osaka Airport Transport)
West
- Hanshin Koshien StadiumKoshien Stadiumis a baseball park located near Kobe in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The stadium was built to host the national high school baseball tournaments, and opened on April 1, 1924. It was the largest stadium in Asia at the time it was completed, with a capacity of 55,000.The name Kōshien comes...
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Koshien - Hanshin Bus northbound stops
- for
- for Hanshin Nishinomiya via
- for (operated by Hanshin Bus and Hankyu Bus)
- for Takarazuka via Takarazuka City Hospital
- for Amagasaki-Hamada Depot and
- for (running after night games, but no buses for Namba in 2011)
Renovation
- On June 8, 2011, Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd. announced plans to renovate Koshien Station to start in autumn 2011 and be completed in Fiscal 2016. Of the four platforms at the station, a side platform for unloading eastbound trains will be removed and the remaining three platforms will be widened to accommodate an elevator connecting to the west gate on each platform and another elevator connecting to the east gate on each of the two platforms used for boarding trains. The west gate will be widened to ease access to Hanshin Koshien Stadium, covering a camphor tree in the south of the station. The east entrance will be situated near the east gate making it useful for passengers to access the eastern area of the station. A large roof will cover the center of the platforms and the tracks.