Kōtōen

History

Kōtōen Station opened on 1 June 1922 as a new stop between Kobayashi and Mondoyakujin on Hanshin Kyūkō Electric Railway's Saihō Line, made possible by a land donation from the landowner Matausemon Shibakawa. Before the overhead reconstruction the ticket gate was underground. The Saihō Line was renamed the Imazu Line on 18 December 1926. The overhead station building was completed on 29 April 1998, and the Hankyu-wide station-numbering scheme assigned the station the code HK-24 on 21 December 2013.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.

Notes

The station's surroundings include the Kwansei Gakuin University west Uegahara Campus, Kwansei Gakuin Junior High and Senior High, Hyōgo Prefectural Nishinomiya High, Nigawa Gakuin Junior High and Senior High, Nigawa Gakuin Elementary, and Hōtoku Gakuen Junior High and Senior High; the station fronts these institutions and is the major commuting hub for them. It was damaged in the 17 January 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and rebuilt with a Hanshin-modernist station-house design to match the surrounding architectural character.