Ishibashi Station (Osaka)

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Ishibashi Station
Hankyu Railway ishibashi-sta.JPG
Umeda-bound Express at Ishibashi
Prefecture Osaka
(See other stations in Osaka)
City Ikeda
Neighborhood etc. Ishibashi Nichome
Coordinates 34°48′29″N 135°26′44″E﻿ / ﻿34.808152°N 135.445456°E﻿ / 34.808152; 135.445456Coordinates: 34°48′29″N 135°26′44″E﻿ / ﻿34.808152°N 135.445456°E﻿ / 34.808152; 135.445456
(in Japanese) 大阪府池田市石橋二丁目
Year opened 1910
Rail services
Station number(s) HK-48
Operator(s) Hankyu Corporation
Line(s) Takarazuka Main Line
Minoo Line
The school/residential area just south of Ishibashi in Toyonaka.
The uncovered part of the Ishibashi area shopping street in Ikeda.

Ishibashi Station (石橋駅 Ishibashi eki?, station number: HK-48) 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. Ishibashi station is surrounded by 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.


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]

Adjacent stations[edit]

« Service »
Hankyu (HK-48)
Takarazuka Line
Hotarugaike (HK-47)   Local   Ikeda (HK-49)
Hotarugaike (HK-47)   Semi-Express (only running for Umeda on weekday mornings)   Ikeda (HK-49)
Hotarugaike (HK-47)   Express   Ikeda (HK-49)
Toyonaka (HK-46)   Commutation Express   Ikeda (HK-49)
Jūsō (HK-03)   Limited Express (Nissei Express)   Ikeda (HK-49)
Minoo Line
Terminus   Local   Sakurai (HK-57)
Hotarugaike (Takarazuka Line, HK-47)   Local (on weekday rush hours)   Sakurai (HK-57)
Hotarugaike (Takarazuka Line, HK-47)   Commutaion Semi-Express (on weekday mornings)   Sakurai (HK-57)

See also[edit]


  1. ^ Hankyu Corporation (April 2001). Hankyū Station (in Japanese). Osaka: Hankyu Corporation. p. 33. ISBN 4-89485-051-6. 
  2. ^ Mainichi Shimbun. "昭和毎日：吹田事件 - 毎日ｊｐ(毎日新聞)" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-11-30. 
  3. ^ The official record of the proceedings of the House of Representatives. No. 52, Local Administration Committee, 19th National Diet (April 27, 1954) (Japanese)

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