History
Shinzaike Station opened on 12 April 1905 as Tōmyō Station with the Hanshin Main Line, in Nada Ward, Kōbe. It was renamed Shinzaike — second of that name — on 11 February 1930, after a separate earlier Shinzaike Station between this station and Ōishi had been closed the previous year. The line through Ishiyagawa, Shinzaike and Nishi-Nada was straightened and elevated on 2 July 1967, and the station was relocated northward to its present site; at the same time the adjacent Shinzaike depot closed. Operations were suspended following the 1995 Hanshin Awaji earthquake and resumed on 26 June. From 28 October 2006 all express services ceased to call, and IC card station numbering was introduced on 1 April 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The platform's 120-metre length accommodates six standard 19-metre Hanshin cars but cannot take a six-car formation of 21-metre Kintetsu rolling stock.