Iwaya Station (Hyōgo)

Iwaya Station

岩屋駅
Iwaya Station; 岩屋駅
	Iwaya Station
General information
Location	2, Iwayakita-machi 4-chōme, Nada, Kobe, Hyōgo; （神戸市灘区岩屋北町）; Japan
Coordinates	34°42′15″N 135°13′04″E / 34.704082°N 135.217838°E
Operated by	Hanshin Electric Railway
Line(s)	Main Line
Connections	Bus stop;
Other information
Station code	HS 30
History
Opened	1905
Passengers
2007	9,804 daily
Services
Hanshin Electric Railway Main Line (HS 30)
	Rapid Express: Does not stop at this station
	Limited Express; Through Limited Express: Does not stop at this station

Iwaya Station (岩屋駅, Iwaya-eki) is a railway station of Hanshin Main Line, in Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, between Nishi-Nada Station and Kasuganomichi Station.

Overview

There are a side platform and an island platform serving a track each in a trench.

1	■ Main Line	for Koshien, Amagasaki, Osaka (Umeda), Namba, and Nara
2	■ Main Line	for Sannomiya, Kosoku Kobe, Akashi, and Himeji

Iwaya Station opened on the Hanshin Main Line on 12 April 1905.^[1]

The tracks to the west of the station were moved underground in 1934.^[1]

Service was suspended owing to the Great Hanshin earthquake in January 1995. Restoration work on the Hanshin Main Line took 7 months to complete.^[1]

Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013, with Kasuganomichi being designated as station number HS-31.^[2]

^ ^a ^b ^c 兵庫の鉄道全駅私鉄・公営鉄道 [All railway stations in Hyogo Private railways and public railways] (in Japanese). Japan: Kobe Newspaper General Publishing Center. 2012. ISBN 9784343006745.
^ "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" [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] (PDF). Hanshin News Online (in Japanese). 30 April 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 April 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2022.