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Ishibashi Station
石橋駅
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| Umeda-bound Express at Ishibashi | |
| Location | |
| Prefecture | Osaka (See other stations in Osaka) |
| City | Ikeda |
| History | |
| Year opened | 1910 |
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| Operator(s) | Hankyu Corporation |
| Line(s) | Takarazuka Main Line Minoo Line |
Ishibashi Station (石橋駅 Ishibashi eki) is a train station located in Ikeda, Osaka, but is on the border with Toyonaka to the south and Minoo 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.
Ishibashi is home to one of the two campuses of Osaka University, and it is 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 with 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.
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There are three platforms with five tracks on the ground level.
| 1 | ■Takarazuka Line | for Takarazuka, Kiyoshikojin, Kawanishi-noseguchi and Nigawa |
| 2 | ■Takarazuka Line | from Takarazuka and Kawanishi-noseguchi for Umeda, Kobe, Kyoto and Kita-Senri |
| 3 | ■Minoo Line | mainly from the Takarazuka Line for Minoo |
| 4 | ■Takarazuka Line | from the Minoo Line for Umeda, Kobe, Kyoto and Kita-Senri |
| 5 | ■Minoo Line | returning for Minoo |
The station opened concurrently with the opening of the Takarazuka Line and the Minoo Line on March 10, 1910. Since then the structure of the station as an interchange of the two lines has not been largely changed except for the stretched platforms.[1]
On June 25, 1952, hours before the first scheduled train of the day, hundreds of protesters against the Korean War who left a meeting at the Osaka University campus thronged Ishibashi Station and forced station master to run a train to transport them to Osaka. After getting off the forcedly operated train at Hattori Station, they marched and burst into Suita Classification Yard of Japanese National Railways. As a result, more than one hundred people were arrested on charge of riot. The incident is called the Suita Incident.[2][3]
| « | Service | » | ||
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| Takarazuka Line | ||||
| Hotarugaike | Local | Ikeda | ||
| Hotarugaike | Semi-Express (only runnning for Umeda on weekday mornings) | Ikeda | ||
| Hotarugaike | Express | Ikeda | ||
| Toyonaka | Commutation Express | Ikeda | ||
| Jūsō | Limited Express (Nissei Express) | Ikeda | ||
| Minoo Line | ||||
| Terminus | Local | Sakurai | ||
| Hotarugaike (Takarazuka Line) | Local (on weekday rush hours) | Sakurai | ||
| Hotarugaike (Takarazuka Line) | Commutaion Semi-Express (on weekday mornings) | Sakurai | ||
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