is a passenger railway station located in Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company Hanshin Electric Railway.
Lines Ishiyagawa Station is served by the Hanshin Main Line, and is located 26.6 kilometers from the terminus of the line at .
Layout The station consists of one elevated island platform serving two tracks. Part of the platform crosses the Ishiya River. The effective length of the platform is 120 meters, which corresponds to a 19-meter-class Hanshin 6-car train. However, only 4-car trains stop at this station. The Ishiyagawa rail yard is located on the Sannomiya side of the station, and there is a crossover track. There is only one ticket gate on the ground level.
Platforms
History Ishiyagawa Station opened on the Hanshin Main Line on 12 April 1905.
Service was suspended owing to the Great Hanshin earthquake in January 1995. Restoration work on the Hanshin Main Line took 7 months to complete. The station was reconstructed as an island platform station, instead of its previous two opposed side platform configuration.
Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with Ishiyagawa being designated as station number HS-26.
Passenger statistics In fiscal 2020, the station was used by an average of 6,838 passengers daily
Surrounding area Route 2 (国道2号) - Arterial route from Osaka to Fukuoka Kobe Municipal Mikage Public Hall (神戸市立御影公会堂) The repair of Mikage Public Hall, the fading remnant of Grave of the Fireflies | Sankei News A stage of Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓の舞台) The dramatic repair of Mikage Public Hall which appears in Grave of the Fireflies Ishiyagawa Park (石屋川公園) The Cherry Trees are in full blossom at Ishiyagawa Park located at the boundary of Nada Ward and Higashi-Nada Ward | Higashi-Nada Journal
Buses Kobe City Bus "Mikage Kokaido Mae" stop of Route 16 for (JR六甲道), , Kobe University Faculty of Intercultural Studies (神大国際文化学部前), and Rokko Cable Car Station Hanshin Bus "Kami Ishiya" stop for Hanshin Nishinomiya (阪神西宮) and Kobe Zeikan Mae (神戸税関前)
See also List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
Ishiyagawa Station website