History
Hanshin Amagasaki Station opened on 12 April 1905 with the inauguration of the Hanshin Main Line; the adjoining Amagasaki depot had been completed the previous August. On 28 December 1928 the Dempō Line - later the Nishi-Osaka Line and now the Hanshin Namba Line - was extended to this station. Platforms were elevated on 20 January 1963, and the effective platform length was extended from 98 m to 120 m in February 1964. Hanshin's first automatic ticket gates were installed here on 5 October 1972. The station became a through limited express stop on 10 March 2001. Improvement works began on 1 July 2003 (transferring station facilities to Kobe Rapid Transit Railway as the project sponsor) and continued through phased restructuring: the Amagasaki-Daimotsu section became elevated on 12 November 2006, the new up-line platforms (1/2) and north ticket gate opened on 17 March 2007, the new Nishi-Osaka Line platform 3 opened on 2 February 2008, and the Nishi-Osaka Line was renamed the Hanshin Namba Line and extended to Osaka-Namba on 20 March 2009. Station numbering (HS 09) was introduced on 1 April 2014, and the section-limited express began stopping here on 19 March 2016. Movable platform doors were activated on platform 2 on 17 February 2024 and on platform 1 on 16 March 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Amagasaki is the only station where every train type running on Hanshin's network east of Kobe-Sannomiya stops. It is locally distinguished from the separate JR West Amagasaki Station - about 1.8 km away on the JR Kobe and JR Takarazuka Lines - as 'Hanshin Amagasaki' (or 'Han-Ama' / 阪尼), with 'JR Amagasaki' (or 'J-Ama' / J尼) used for the other. The station has four island platforms serving six tracks, allowing same-platform interchange between Main Line and Hanshin Namba Line trains; the platform 4 effective lengths are 215 m to accommodate Kintetsu 10-car formations. The station became the branching point between Kita (Umeda) and Minami (Osaka-Namba) when the Hanshin Namba Line opened in 2009. The station building is the parent yard for the Hanshin depot to the east; Hanshin Electric Railway's head office was once located here before moving to Umeda and then Fukushima-ku.