History
Imazu Station is an interchange between Hanshin Electric Railway (HS 16) and Hankyu Railway (HK-21), opened almost simultaneously when the Hankyu Imazu Line was extended from Nishinomiya-kitaguchi. On 18 December 1926 the Hankyu (then Hanshin Kyūkō) station opened in a temporary structure slightly north, intended for further extension to Imazu Port. On 19 December 1926 the Hanshin Imazu Station (second generation) opened on the Main Line as a connecting station, and the original Imazu Station (first generation) was renamed Kusugawa. The Hankyu station moved into its permanent building on 1 April 1928. On 13 December 1949 a Hankyu Imazu Line train ran out of control through the station onto the Hanshin Main Line, traveling about 700 m before striking the Kusugawa platform. The Great Hanshin Earthquake suspended both lines on 17 January 1995. The Hankyu station was rebuilt as an elevated station on 16 December 1995; the Hanshin station's down-line tracks were elevated on 30 May 1998 and the up-line on 3 March 2001. Station numbering was introduced by Hankyu on 21 December 2013 and by Hanshin on 1 April 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
On the Hankyu side, the distance to the adjacent Hanshin-kokudō Station is just over 700 m, the shortest inter-station distance on the entire Hankyu network; the two stations are visible from each other in a straight line. The Hanshin platforms were extended in March 2019 to approximately 170 m, enabling eight-car formations of Kintetsu's 21 m-class trains to stop here, supporting through services from the Kintetsu Nara Line. The Hankyu and Hanshin stations are linked by a pedestrian deck with two elevators for accessibility.