Mefu-jinja

History

Mefu-Jinja Station opened on 21 March 1914 on what was then the Mino'o Arima Electric Tramway, the predecessor of today's Hankyu Railway. Located in the city of Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture, on the Hankyu Takarazuka Line 22.4 km from Osaka-umeda, the stop takes its name from the adjacent Mefu shrine. At opening the platforms were too short to accommodate a three-car train, and even two-car services would skip the station unless a passenger requested a stop in advance. The station has two ground-level side platforms with no in-station connection between them; passengers transferring direction must exit and re-enter from the other side. Hankyu's system-wide station numbering, introduced on 21 December 2013, assigned the designation HK-54.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

Because the up and down platforms have separate ticket gates and no connecting footbridge, a passenger who boards on the wrong side must leave the station entirely and walk around to the other entrance.