Hanshin-Kokudō

History

Hanshin-Kokudō Station opened on 10 May 1927 as a new stop on Hanshin Kyūkō Electric Railway's Imazu Line between Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi and Imazu, the year after the line had opened. The Hankyu-wide station-numbering scheme assigned the station the code HK-22 on 21 December 2013. The fare-gate window operating hours were shortened on 1 April 2023 to 07:00–22:00, leaving early-morning and late-night periods unstaffed.

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

Notes

Despite its name's reference to "Hanshin" (Osaka–Kobe), the station belongs to Hankyu Railway, not to Hanshin Electric Railway: the name traces to the Hanshin Highway (National Route 2), which passes directly in front of the station. Hankyu Railway and Hanshin Electric Railway have no station that includes its own company name in its formal name. The distance to the next stop Imazu is just over 700 metres, the shortest interstation distance on the entire Hankyu network.