History
Nishi-Motomachi Station opened on 7 April 1968 with the Kobe Rapid Transit Railway's east-west line in Chūō-ku, Kobe. Hanshin Electric Railway operates services as a Class 2 carrier while Kobe Rapid Transit owns the trackage. The Great Hanshin earthquake of 17 January 1995 damaged the underground structure; service through Nishi-Motomachi resumed on 1 February 1995 with single-track running between Hanshin Sannomiya and Kōsoku-Kōbe, and double-track operations returned on 6 February 1995. Sanyō Electric Railway limited expresses stopped at the station until April 1991, then again from February 1998 until weekend through-service revisions ended Sanyō calls altogether in March 2009. Station numbering was introduced on 1 April 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
About 200 metres away stands Hankyū's Hanakuma Station, but the two are not treated as a transfer pair; official Hanshin-Hankyu interchanges in Kobe are Kōsoku-Kōbe and Kōbe-Sannomiya.