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Coordinates: 34°48′28″N 135°26′44″E / 34.80778, 135.44556
Umeda-bound Express at Ishibashi
Ishibashi Station (石橋駅, Ishibashi eki?) is a train station located in Ikeda, Osaka, but is on the border with Toyonaka, Osaka to the south and Minoo, Osaka to the east. It serves as a transfer point for the Hankyu Minoo Line on one side and on the other side is an express station on the Hankyu Takarazuka Line．The station has five platforms connected by tunnels, two for Osaka-Takarazuka service, and three for Minoo service.
The quiet school/residential area just south of Ishibashi in
Toyonaka.
The uncovered part of the Ishibashi area shopping street in
Ikeda.
Ishibashi is home to one of the two campuses of Osaka University, and it's perhaps because of its large student population that Ishibashi has a rather bohemian, and certainly foreigner-friendly, feel to it. Ishibashi station is surrounded by an interesting, scruffy, ugly, but entirely safe warren of bars, karaoke boxes, and izakaya restaurants along more traditional small-stall shopping streets.
The word Ishibashi literally means Stone Bridge, referring to the old stone street bridge immediately north of the station over a small river that serves as the northern end of the shopping area, which is called Akai hashi.
[edit] Layout
There are three platforms and five tracks on the ground level.
[edit] Adjacent stations
| « |
Service |
» |
| Hankyu |
| Takarazuka Line |
| Jūsō |
|
Limited Express (特急日生エクスプレス) |
|
Ikeda |
| Toyonaka |
|
Commutation Express |
|
Ikeda |
| Hotarugaike |
|
Express |
|
Ikeda |
| Hotarugaike |
|
Commutaion Semi-Express |
|
Sakurai (Minoo Line) |
| Hotarugaike |
|
Semi-Express for Umeda |
|
Ikeda |
| Hotarugaike |
|
Local |
|
Ikeda |
| Minoo Line |
| Hotarugaike (Takarazuka Line) |
|
Commutaion Semi-Express |
|
Sakurai |
| Terminus |
|
Local |
|
Sakurai |
| Hotarugaike (Takarazuka Line) |
|
Local (in the morning and the evening on weekdays) |
|
Sakurai |
