Daikai Station | |
Native Name: | 大開 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Owned: | Kobe Rapid Transit Railway |
Operator: | Hanshin Electric Railway |
Line: | Kobe Kosoku Line |
Platforms: | 2 side platforms |
Tracks: | 2 |
Code: | HS37 |
Opened: | April 7, 1968 |
Rebuilt: | January 18, 1995 – January 17, 1996 |
is a train station on the Hanshin Railway Kobe Kosoku Line in Hyōgo-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It was the first underground structure not crossing an active fault that has completely collapsed during an earthquake without liquefaction of the surrounding soil and was well-documented.
The Daikai Station consists of three main sections: the main section of the station, the subway tunnels section and the station access section.[1] The location of the station is made up of 2 meter thick man made fill, around 5 meter thick Holocene alluvial deposits, and several kilometers of Pleistocene deposits.[1]
The station opened on 7 April 1968.[2]
Damage to the station was caused by the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 in which the station collapsed.[3]
Station numbering was introduced on 1 April 2014.[4]