Hanakuma Station Explained

Hanakuma Station
Native Name:	花隈
Native Name Lang:	ja
Address:	3 Motomachikōkadōri, Chuo, Kobe, Hyōgo
Country:	Japan
Operator:	Hankyu Corporation
Line:	Kobe Main Line
Code:	HK-17
Opened:	7 April 1968

Overview

There are two eight-car-long side platforms at 2nd basement level serving two tracks.

Trains run 0455-0020 every day. The typical hourly off-peak weekday service is:

8 trains to Kobe-sannomiya, of which:
- 6 continue to Umeda as limited expresses (Kobe-sannomiya, Okamoto, Shukugawa, Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi, Jūsō, Umeda)
8 trains to Shinkaichi, of which:
- 2 continue to Himeji as locals (alternatively passengers can change at Kōsoku-Kōbe).

Hanakuma Station opened on 7 April 1968.^[1]

The station was damaged by the Great Hanshin earthquake in January 1995. Restoration work on the Kobe Line took 7 months to complete.^[2]

Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with Hanakuma being designated as station number HK-17.^[3]

Book: 兵庫の鉄道全駅私鉄・公営鉄道. Kobe Shimbun. 2012. 9784343006745. Japan. 206. ja. All railway stations in Hyogo Private railways and public railways.
曽根. 悟. October 2010. 週刊歴史でめぐる鉄道全路線大手私鉄. Weekly History of all Railway Lines: Major private railways. Weekly Asahi Encyclopedia. ja. 12 (Hanshin Electric Railway Hankyu Electric Railway 2). 27–29. 978-4-02-340142-6.
Web site: 30 April 2013. 「西山天王山」駅開業にあわせて、「三宮」「服部」「中山」「松尾」４駅の駅名を変更し、全駅で駅ナンバリングを導入します. "Sannomiya" "Hattori" "Nakayama" "Matsuo" along with the opening of "Nishiyama Tennozan" station. We will change the station names of 4 stations and introduce station numbering at all stations.. https://web.archive.org/web/20160427234925/http://megalodon.jp/ref/2013-1215-0920-39/holdings.hankyu-hanshin.co.jp/ir/data/ER201304306N1.pdf. 27 April 2016. 19 February 2022. Hankyu Corporation Online. PDF.