Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station explained

Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station
Native Name:ドーム前千代崎駅
Native Name Lang:ja
Type:Rail station
Address:Chiyozaki Sanchome, Nishi, Osaka, Osaka
Country:Japan
Coordinates:34.6708°N 135.4794°W
Operator:
Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd.
Line:
Hanshin Namba Line
Code: HS 43 (Hanshin)
Opened:August 29, 1997 (Osaka Metro), 2009 (Hanshin)
Former:Osaka Dome-mae Chiyozaki (until 2006)
Map Type:Japan Osaka Prefecture#Japan
Alternativemap:Osaka géolocalisation relief.svg

is a railway station and metro station on the Osaka Metro Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line in Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan.The station has the secondary station name Kyocera Dome Osaka.

is also a nearby station on the Hanshin Electric Railway Hanshin Namba Line near Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station.

Lines

Layout

Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station (Osaka Metro)

The station has an island platform serving 2 tracks on the 4th basement and the platform is equipped with platform gates. On the 2nd basement, there are extra ticket machines on the opposite side of the ticket gates for the events at Osaka Dome (Kyocera Dome Osaka).

Dome-mae Station (Hanshin Railway)

This station has 5 levels underground in order to take passengers from Osaka Dome (Kyocera Dome Osaka) smoothly. The 2nd basement functions as the ticket gate area and the 5th basement contains an island platform serving two tracks. Approximately 160 thousand bricks are used for the wall of the platform and tracks because there was formerly an Osaka Gas factory near this station which was made out of bricks.[1] The passage to ÆON Mall Osaka Dome City is located in front of the ticket gates.

History

Surroundings

Buses

Dome-mae Chiyozaki (Osaka City Bus Corporation)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 阪神なんば線秘話7 . Hanshin Namba Line Inside Story: Story 7 . Japanese . Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120530141836/http://www.hanshin.co.jp/nambasen/enjoy/inside_story/07.html . May 30, 2012 .