is a
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
in
Nada-ku,
Kobe
Kobe ( ; , ), officially , is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. With a population of around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's List of Japanese cities by population, seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Port of Toky ...
,
Hyōgo Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 () and a geographic area of . Hyōgo Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the east, Osaka Prefecture to th ...
,
Japan
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. It is located at the southeastern corner of Ōji Park, which includes
Ōji Stadium and the city zoo (
Ōji Zoo).
Layout
Ōji-kōen is an elevated station. It is served by two side platforms serving two tracks.
History
The station opened on 1 April 1936.
The station building was relocated in October 1956.
Ōji-kōen Station was damaged by the
Great Hanshin earthquake
The Great Hanshin Earthquake (, ) occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region of Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum intensity of 7 o ...
in January 1995. Restoration work on the Kobe Line took 7 months to complete.
Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with Ōji-kōen being designated as station number HK-14.
References
External links
Station website (in Japanese)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Oji-Koen Station
Railway stations in Hyōgo Prefecture
Hankyū Kōbe Main Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1936