Motomachi Station (Hyōgo)

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Motomachi Station (元町駅, Motomachi-eki^?) is a railway station in Motomachi, Chūō-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo 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.

Contents 1 Lines 2 Layout 2.1 JR West 2.2 Hanshin, Kobe Rapid 3 Adjacent stations

[edit] Lines

Kobe Rapid Transit Railway
Legend Hankyu Sannomiya Motomachi Hanakuma Nishi-Motomachi Kōsoku Kōbe Shinkaichi Minatogawa Daikai Kōsoku Nagata Nishidai view • talk • edit

• JR West JR Kōbe Line (Tōkaidō Main Line)
• Hanshin Electric Railway Main Line
• Kobe Rapid Transit Railway Tōzai Line

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.

[edit] Layout

[edit] JR West

There are two elevated island platforms with four tracks.

1	■JR Kobe Line	rapid service for Sannomiya, Osaka and Kyoto in the morning
2	■JR Kobe Line	local trains and rapid service for Sannomiya, Osaka and Kyoto
3	■JR Kobe Line	local trains and rapid service for Kobe, Akashi and Himeji
4	■JR Kobe Line	a part of rapid service for Kobe, Akashi and Himeji in the morning and in the evening on weekdays

[edit] Hanshin, Kobe Rapid

There is an underground island platform with two tracks.

1	■Hanshin Electric Railway Main Line	for Sannomiya, Ashiya, Nishinomiya, Koshien, Amagasaki and Osaka
2	■Kobe Rapid Transit Railway Tozai Line	for Kosoku Kobe, Suma, Akashi and Himeji

[edit] Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
West Japan Railway Company (JR West) Tōkaidō Line (JR Kōbe Line)
Special Rapid Service: no stop
Sannomiya		Rapid Service		Kōbe
Sannomiya		Local		Kōbe
Hanshin Electric Railway Main Line Kobe Rapid Transit Railway Tōzai Line
Sannomiya (Hanshin)		Through Limited Express (red marking)		Kosoku Kobe (Kobe Rapid Transit Railway)
Sannomiya (Hanshin)		S Limited Express		Kōsoku Kōbe (Kobe Rapid Transit Railway)
Sannomiya (Hanshin)		Through Limited Express (yellow marking)		Nishi-Motomachi (Kobe Rapid Transit Railway)
Sannomiya (Hanshin)		Limited Express		Nishi-Motomachi (Kobe Rapid Transit Railway)
Sannomiya (Hanshin)		Express		Nishi-Motomachi (Kobe Rapid Transit Railway)
Sannomiya (Hanshin)		Local		Nishi-Motomachi (Kobe Rapid Transit Railway)

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