Keisan Kagaku Center Station | |
Native Name: | 計算科学センター駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | Chūō-ku, Kobe |
Country: | Japan |
Operator: | Kobe New Transit |
Line: | Port Island Line |
Distance: | 5.4 km from [1] |
Platforms: | 1 island platforms |
Structure: | Elevated |
Code: | P08 |
Passengers: | 3,911 per day (2017)[2] |
is a railway station operated by Kobe New Transit in Chūō-ku, Kobe, Japan. It is located on Port Island and is served by the Port Island Line. The station name is taken from the nearby Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science.The station is subtitled as, named after the nearby theme park and the supercomputer located in the institute.[1]
The station was originally named .[3] On 1 July 2011, the station was renamed to with the namesake of K computer, the supercomputer then being developed at the institute.[4] Following the decommissioning of K computer, the station was renamed to the current name on 19 June 2021.
Ridership per day | ||
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Year | Ridership | |
2011 | 2,200 | |
2012 | 2,230 | |
2013 | 2,299 | |
2014 | 2,845 | |
2015 | 3,352 | |
2016 | 3,545 | |
2017 | 3,911 |