Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station

Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station (ドーム前千代崎駅, Dōmu-mae Chiyozaki-eki) is a railway station on the Osaka Municipal Subway Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line in Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan. The station has the secondary station name Kyocera Dome Osaka.

There is Dome-mae Station (ドーム前駅, Dōmu-mae eki) on the Hanshin Electric Railway Hanshin Namba Line near Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station.

Lines

Osaka Municipal Subway Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line (N12: Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station)
Hanshin Electric Railway Hanshin Namba Line (HS 43: Dome-mae Station)

Layout

Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station (Osaka Municipal Subway)

Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station ドーム前千代崎駅
An entrance to Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station (May 2007)
Location	Chiyozaki Sanchome, Nishi, Osaka, Osaka （大阪市西区千代崎三丁目） Japan
Coordinates	34°40′14.77″N 135°28′45.79″E / 34.6707694°N 135.4793861°E / 34.6707694; 135.4793861 (Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station)
Operated by	Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau
Line(s)	Municipal Subway Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line
Other information
Station code	N12
History
Opened	1997
Previous names	Osaka Dome-mae Chiyozaki (until 2006)

The station has an island platform serving 2 tracks on the 4th basement and the platform is fenced with platform gates. On the 2nd basement, there are extra ticket machines on the opposite side of the ticket gates for the events at Osaka Dome (Kyocera Dome Osaka).

1	■ Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line	for Shinsaibashi, Morinomiya, Kyobashi and Kadomaminami
2	■ Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line	to Taisho

Dome-mae Station (Hanshin Railway)

Dome-mae Station ドーム前駅
An entrance to Dome-mae Station (March 2009)
Location	Chiyozaki Sanchome, Nishi, Osaka, Osaka （大阪市西区千代崎三丁目） Japan
Coordinates	34°40′13.8″N 135°28′42.24″E / 34.670500°N 135.4784000°E / 34.670500; 135.4784000 (Dome-mae Station)
Operated by	Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd.
Line(s)	Hanshin Namba Line
Other information
Station code	HS 43
History
Opened	2009

This station has 5 levels underground in order to take passengers from Osaka Dome (Kyocera Dome Osaka) smoothly. The 2nd basement is the ticket gate area and the 5th basement is an island platform serving two tracks. Approximately 160 thousand bricks are used for the wall of the platform and tracks because there used to be a factory of Osaka Gas near this station and the factory was made of bricks.^[1] The passage to ÆON Mall Osaka Dome City is located in front of ticket gates.

1	■ Hanshin Namba Line	for Osaka Namba and Nara
2	■ Hanshin Namba Line	for Amagasaki, Koshien and Kobe Sannomiya Change trains at Amagasaki or Kobe Sannnomiya for Akashi and Himeji

History

August 29, 1997: Osaka Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station (大阪ドーム前千代崎駅, Ōsaka-Dōmu-mae-Chiyozaki eki) on the Osaka Municipal Subway Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line was opened for the extension of the line from Shinsaibashi to Taisho.
December 24, 2006: Osaka Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station was renamed Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station on the same day the Imazatosuji Line was opened.
March 20, 2009: Dome-mae Station was opened for the opening of the Hanshin Railway Hanshin Namba Line.
August 28, 2010: The platform gates became in use on the platform of Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station.

Surroundings

Osaka Dome (from July 1, 2006 until March 31, 2017: Kyocera Dome Osaka)
Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau
Osaka Municipal Fire Department, Nishi Fire Station
Osaka Gas Dome City Gas Building
Foleo Osaka Dome City
ÆON Mall Osaka Dome City

Buses

Dome-mae Chiyozaki (Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau)

Route 51 for Tempozan via Bentencho-ekimae and Daisan Tottei-mae
Route 70 for Nishi-Funamachi via Taisho Kuyakusho-mae (ward office)
Route 70 Express for Nishi-Funamachi via Taisho Kuyakusho-mae (ward office)
Route 76 for Subway Suminoekoen
Route 90 for Nodahanshin-mae / for Tsurumachi Yonchome via Taisho Kuyakusho-mae (ward office)
Route 91 for Tsurumachi Yonchome via Taisho Kuyakusho-mae (ward office)
Route 91 Express for Tsurumachi Yonchome via Taisho Kuyakusho-mae (ward office)
Route 94 for Tsurumachi Yonchome via Chishima Koen-mae
Route 98 for Taisho Kuyakusho-mae (ward office) via Shin-Chitose

References

↑ Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd. "阪神なんば線秘話7" [Hanshin Namba Line Inside Story: Story 7] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on May 30, 2012.

External links

Media related to Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station at Wikimedia Commons
Media related to Dome-mae Station at Wikimedia Commons

«	Service	»
Osaka Municipal Subway (N12: Dome-mae Chiyozaki)
Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line
Taisho (N11)	-	Nishi-Nagahori (N13)
Hanshin Railway (HS 43: Dome-mae)
Hanshin Namba Line
Kujo (HS 44)	Local		Sakuragawa (HS 42)
Kujo (HS 44)	Semi-Express Suburban Semi-Express		Sakuragawa (HS 42)
Kujo (HS 44)	Rapid Express		Sakuragawa (HS 42)

Stations on the Osaka Municipal Subway Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line

Taishō Dome-mae Chiyozaki Nishi-Nagahori Nishiōhashi Shinsaibashi Nagahoribashi Matsuyamachi Tanimachi Rokuchōme Tamatsukuri Morinomiya Osaka Business Park Kyōbashi Gamō-yonchōme Imafuku-Tsurumi Yokozutsumi Tsurumi-ryokuchi Kadoma-minami

Stations on the Hanshin Namba Line

(<<Main Line) Amagasaki Daimotsu Dekijima Fuku Dempō Chidoribashi Nishikujō Kujō Dome-mae Sakuragawa Ōsaka Namba (Kintetsu Namba Line, Nara Line>>)

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