Kōshienguchi Station

Kōshienguchi Station (甲子園口駅) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West). Despite the station's name roughly translating to “Koshien Stadium Entrance”, it is located nowhere near the venue, and a bus is required to reach it. The name is derived from the neighborhood the station is in, which is also called Kōshienguchi despite being distant from the stadium.

Lines
Kōshienguchi Station is served by the Tōkaidō Main Line (JR Kobe Line), and is located 569.3 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Tokyo and 12.9 kilometers from Osaka.

Station layout
The station consists of two island platforms on an embankment, serving three tracks, connected by a station building at ground-level. The outer line side of the inbound line (Platform 4) is closed with stainless steel fences, but there is a space that can be removed at almost equal intervals, and it is prepared for temporary stops of group trains and outer line trains and in case of emergency. However, it has never been actually used.The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Adjacent stations
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History
Kōshienguchi Station opened on July 20, 1934. With the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company.

Station numbering was introduced to the station in March 2018 with Kōshienguchi being assigned station number JR-A51.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 18,735 passengers daily

Surrounding area

 * Muko River
 * Mukogawa Women's University Kamikoshien Campus (Koshien Hall)
 * Koshienguchi Shopping Street
 * Koshien Junior College
 * Koshien Gakuin Junior and Senior High School
 * Koshien Gakuin Elementary School