Motomachi Station

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JR platforms at Motomachi; a freight train passes by in the background

Motomachi Station (元町駅, Motomachi-eki^?) is a railway station in Motomachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.

It is one of the main stations serving the central business district of Kobe. The station is the closest access point to the Motomachi shopping district and to Nanking Town, one of Japan's three largest Chinatown districts.

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The JR and Hanshin/Kobe Rapid platforms are separated and no interchange is possible without completely leaving one building and entering another; therefore there are technically two separate Motomachi stations, although they are often treated as one.

The JR station is served by local and rapid trains.

The Hanshin station is the western terminus of the Main Line, although service continues west on the Kobe Rapid Railway.

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JR Kobe Line

Kobe - Motomachi - Sannomiya

Hanshin Main Line (Kobe Rapid Railway)

Nishi-Motomachi - Motomachi - Sannomiya

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Stations of the JR West Kobe Line (Tōkaidō Main Line • Sanyō Main Line)

(Kyōto Line<<) - Osaka - Tsukamoto - Amagasaki - Tachibana - Kōshienguchi - Nishinomiya - Sakura Shukugawa - Ashiya - Kōnan-yamate - Settsu-Motoyama - Sumiyoshi - Rokkōmichi - (Higashinada Signal Station) - Nada - Sannomiya - Motomachi - Kōbe - Hyōgo - Shin Nagata - Takatori (Kōbe Freight Terminal) - Suma - Shioya - Tarumi - Maiko - Asagiri - Akashi - Nishi-Akashi - Ōkubo - Uozumi - Tsuchiyama - Higashi Kakogawa - Kakogawa - Hōden - Sone - Himeji-Bessho (Himeji Freight) - Gochaku - Himeji - (>>Sanyō Main Line)

Wadamisaki Line: Hyōgo - Wadamisaki

view • talk • edit Stations of Kobe Rapid Railway
Tōzai Line
(Hanshin Main Line <<) - Motomachi - Nishi-Motomachi	- Kosoku-Kobe - Shinkaichi	- Daikai - Kosoku-Nagata - Nishidai - (>> Sanyo Railway Main Line)
(Hankyu Kobe Line <<) - Hankyu Sannomiya - Hanakuma
Namboku Line
(Shintetsu Arima Line <<) - Minatogawa - Shinkaichi