Imazu Station (Hyōgo)

Imazu Station is served by the Hanshin Main Line for which it is station number HS-16, and is located 15.4.0 kilometers from the terminus of the line at {{STN|Umeda|x}}. It is also served by the Hankyū Imazu Line for which it is station number HK-21, and is 9.3 kilometers from the terminus of that line at {{STN|Takarazuka|x}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Imazu Station

| native_name = 今津駅

| native_name_lang = ja

| type = Hanshin Railway station

| image = HS-ImazuStation-NorthGate.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Hanshin Imazu Station (elevated in 2001)

| other_name =

| address = 1-1, Imazu-Akebonocho, Nishinomiya-shi, Hyōgo-ken

| country = Japan

| coordinates = {{coord|34|43|51.63|N|135|21|4.91|E|type:railwaystation_region:JP|name=Imazu Station (Hanshin)}}

| operator = 22px Hanshin Electric Railway

| line = {{Color|navy|■}} Hanshin Main Line

| platforms = 2 side platforms

| tracks = 2

| connections = 20x20px Hankyu Imazu Line
Bus stop

| structure = Elevated

| code = HS 16

| opened = {{Start date|1926|12|18|df=y}}

| closed =

| former =

| passengers = 33,382 (daily){{Cite web |date=2020 |title=2020 Handbook Hanshin |url=https://www.hanshin.co.jp/handbook/pdf/2020/handbook_all.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211112064459/https://www.hanshin.co.jp/handbook/pdf/2020/handbook_all.pdf |archive-date=12 November 2021 |access-date=28 February 2022 |website=Hanshin Railway Online |language=ja }}

| pass_year = 2019

| services = {{j-route|route=Hanshin Main Line (HS 16)|col=blue|f=w}}

{{j-rserv|service=Local|b=d|previous={{STN|Kusugawa|x}} (HS 15)|next={{STN|Nishinomiya|x|Hanshin|Nishinomiya}} (HS 17)|col=navy}}

{{j-rserv|b=d|service=Morning Express (Osaka-Umeda-bound trains only)
Express|previous={{STN|Kōshien|x}} (HS 14)|next=Nishinomiya (HS 17)|col=#ff8000}}

{{j-rserv|b=d|service=Rapid Express (except weekday mornings/evenings)|previous=Kōshien (HS 14)|next=Nishinomiya (HS 17)|col=#09c}}

{{j-rserv|b=d|service=Morning Limited Express (Osaka-Umeda-bound trains only)|previous=Kōshien (HS 14)|next={{STN|Koroen|x}} (HS 18)|col=red}}

{{j-rserv|service=Limited Express
Direct Limited Express|p}}

}}

The station operated by Hanshin Railway was elevated in 2001. The station has two side platforms serving a track each on the 3rd level. Ticket gates and ticket machines are located on the 2nd level. The 170-m platforms are servable for the EMUs owned by Hanshin Railway and those by Kintetsu.

{{ja-rail-line|first=2|pfn=1|nidx=■■Main Line|dir=for {{STN|Koshien|x}}, {{STN|Amagasaki|x|Hanshin|Amagasaki}}, {{STN|Umeda|x||Osaka (Umeda)}}, {{STN|Osaka Namba|x||Namba}}, and {{STN|Kintetsu Nara|x||Nara}}|col=orangered}}

{{ja-rail-line|first=3|pfn=2|nidx=■■Main Line|dir=for {{STN|Sannomiya|x||Kobe (Sannomiya)}}, {{STN|Sanyo Akashi|x||Akashi}}, and {{STN|Sanyo Himeji|x||Himeji}}|col=orangered}}

The current Imazu Station opened at this location on the Hanshin Main Line on 19 December 1926.{{Cite journal |last=曽根 |first=悟 |date=October 2010 |title=週刊 歴史でめぐる鉄道全路線 大手私鉄 |trans-title=Weekly History of all Railway Lines: Major private railways |journal=Weekly Asahi Encyclopedia |language=ja |volume=12 (Hanshin Electric Railway Hankyu Electric Railway 2) |pages=10–13 |isbn=978-4-02-340142-6}} It was also on this date that the original Imazu station to the east was renamed to Kusugawa Station.

Originally a surface-level station, the tracks once continued onto the Hanshin Main Line. This configuration was abolished after 1949 after a runaway train ran from the Imazu Line to the Hanshin Main Line at Kusugawa station.

Service was suspended owing to the Great Hanshin earthquake in January 1995. Restoration work on the Hanshin Main Line took 7 months to complete.{{Cite book |title=兵庫の鉄道全駅 私鉄・公営鉄道 |publisher=Kobe Newspaper General Publishing Center |year=2012 |isbn=9784343006745 |location=Japan |language=ja |trans-title=All railway stations in Hyogo Private railways and public railways}}

The station was shifted to an elevated structure on 3 March 2001.{{Cite news |date=3 March 2001 |title=阪神本線・久寿川駅-芦屋市境3.6キロ きょう始発から高架上の運転 |language=ja |trans-title=Hanshin Main Line Kusugawa Station-Ashiya City Border 3.6km Driving on an elevated train from the first train today |edition=Osaka Morning |pages=35 |work=Yomiuri Shimbun}}

Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with the Hanshin station being designated as station number HS-16.{{Cite web |date=30 April 2014 |title=阪神「三宮」を「神戸三宮」に駅名変更のうえ、駅ナンバリングを導入し、全てのお客さまに分かりやすい駅を目指します |trans-title=After changing the station name from Hanshin "Sannomiya" to "Kobe Sannomiya", Introduced station numbering, Aiming for a station that is easy for all customers to understand |url=https://www.hankyu-hanshin.co.jp/legacy_data/ir/data/SR201304304N1.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410181812/https://www.hankyu-hanshin.co.jp/legacy_data/ir/data/SR201304304N1.pdf |archive-date=10 April 2021 |access-date=27 February 2022 |website=Hanshin News Online |language=ja }}

In 2019, the platforms were extended to the west by about 10 meters.{{Cite web |last=Furumoto |first=Takuji |title=【西宮市】阪神今津駅がホームを工事中。"僅か"10mの延伸で、何が変わる！？ |trans-title=[Nishinomiya City] Hanshin Imazu Station is constructing a platform. What will change with a "slight" 10m stretch! ?? |url=https://nishinomiya.goguynet.jp/2018/12/13/hanshinimazu_181213/ |access-date=28 February 2022 |website=nishinomiya.goguynet.jp}} This was done to enable a stop for 8-car long through services to and from the Kintetsu Nara Line.

File:Hanshin Imazu Station - panoramio (21).jpg|Station sign

File:Hanshin Imazu Station - panoramio (4).jpg|Station concourse in 2010

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{{Infobox station

| name = Imazu Station

| native_name = 今津駅

| native_name_lang = ja

| type = Hankyu Railway station

| image = Hankyu Imazu Station - panoramio (3).jpg

| alt =

| caption = Hankyu Imazu Station building

| other_name =

| address = 1-37, Tsuto-Kurehacho, Nishinomiya-shi, Hyōgo-ken

| country = Japan

| coordinates = {{coord|34|43|55.08|N|135|21|5.72|E|type:railwaystation_region:JP|name=Imazu Station (Hankyu)}}

| operator = 20px Hankyu Railway.

| line = {{Color|blue|■}} Hankyu Imazu Line (south)

| platforms = 1 island platform

| tracks = 2

| connections = 20px Hanshin Main Line
Bus stop

| structure = Elevated

| code = HK-21

| opened = {{Start date|1926|12|18|df=y}}

| closed =

| former =

| passengers = 18,037 (daily) (boardings only){{Cite web |title=駅別乗降人員 |trans-title=Number of passengers getting on and off by station |url=https://www.hankyu.co.jp/station/passenger.html |access-date=1 March 2022 |website=Hankyu Railway Online |language=ja |archive-date=16 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116002140/https://www.hankyu.co.jp/station/passenger.html |url-status=dead }}{{efn|Represents a significant ridership decrease from prior years owing to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport.}}

| pass_year = 2020

| services = {{j-route|route=Imazu Line (south) (HK-21)|col=blue|f=w}}

{{j-rserv|service=Local|b=d|previous={{STN|Hanshin-Kokudō|x}} (HK-22)|col=black}}

}}

The station is served by a single dead-end elevated island platform serving two tracks.

{{ja-rail-line|first=2|pfn=1|nidx=Imazu Line|dir=for Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi
Change at Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi for Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and Takarazuka|col=blue}}

{{ja-rail-line|first=3|pfn=2|nidx=Imazu Line|dir=for {{STN|Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi|x}} (usually used)
Change at Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi for {{STN|Umeda|x||Osaka}}, {{STN|Sannomiya|x||Kobe}}, {{STN|Kawaramachi|x|Kyoto|Kyoto}} and {{STN|Takarazuka|x}}|col=blue}}

Imazu Station opened on the Hanshin Main Line on 18 December 1926.{{Cite journal |last=曽根 |first=悟 |date=October 2010 |title=週刊 歴史でめぐる鉄道全路線 大手私鉄 |trans-title=Weekly History of all Railway Lines: Major private railways |journal=Weekly Asahi Encyclopedia |language=ja |volume=12 (Hanshin Electric Railway Hankyu Electric Railway 2) |pages=14–17 |isbn=978-4-02-340142-6}}

The tracks from the Hankyu Line ran through to the Hanshin Main Line until 1949, when an air compressor failure caused a runaway train to run from the Hankyu Line to the Hanshin Main Line. The trainset, a Hankyu 600 series, continued for about 700 meters east until it hit the platforms at Kusugawa Station.

The Imazu Line was damaged by the Great Hanshin earthquake in January 1995. Restoration work on this line took a few days to complete, which the entire southern portion re-opening for service on 5 February 1995.

The current elevated platforms opened on 16 December 1995.{{Cite journal |date=April 1996 |title=鉄道ジャーナル |trans-title=Railway Journal |journal=鉄道ジャーナル |language=ja |volume=30 |pages=99}}

Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with the station being designated as station number HK-21.{{Cite web |date=30 April 2013 |title=「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 |trans-title="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. |url=https://megalodon.jp/ref/2013-1215-0920-39/holdings.hankyu-hanshin.co.jp/ir/data/ER201304306N1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427234925/http://megalodon.jp/ref/2013-1215-0920-39/holdings.hankyu-hanshin.co.jp/ir/data/ER201304306N1.pdf |archive-date=27 April 2016 |access-date=19 February 2022 |website=Hankyu Corporation Online }}

File:Hankyu Imazu Station platform - panoramio.jpg|Station platforms in 2013

File:Hankyu Imazu Station ticket gate - panoramio.jpg|Ticketing area

File:Hankyu Imazu Station platform - panoramio (6).jpg|View facing north

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• [https://www.hankyu.co.jp/station/imazu.html Hankyu station website] {{in lang|ja}}
• [https://rail.hanshin.co.jp/station/imazu.html Hanshin station website] {{in lang|ja}}

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