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Daikai Station

Railway station in Kobe, Japan

Daikai 大開
Hanshin Kobe Kosoku Line Daikai Station platforms
General information
Owned by	Kobe Rapid Transit Railway
Operated by	Hanshin Electric Railway
Line(s)	Kobe Kosoku Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	HS37
History
Opened	April 7, 1968
Rebuilt	January 18, 1995 – January 17, 1996

Daikai Station (大開駅, Daikai-eki, station number: HS 37) is a train station on the Hanshin Railway Kobe Kosoku Line in Hyōgo-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It was the first underground structure not crossing an active fault that has completely collapsed during an earthquake without liquefaction of the surrounding soil and was well-documented.

Layout

The Daikai Station consists of three main sections: the main section of the station, the subway tunnels section and the station access section.^[1] The location of the station is made up of 2 meter thick man made fill, around 5 meter thick Holocene alluvial deposits, and several kilometers of Pleistocene deposits.^[1]

History

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The station opened on 7 April 1968.^[2]

Damage to the station was caused by the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 in which the station collapsed.^[3]

Station numbering was introduced on 1 April 2014.^[4]

Adjacent stations

«	Service
Hanshin Railway Kobe Kosoku Line (HS 37)
Shinkaichi (HS 36)	Sanyo Local	Kōsoku Nagata (HS 38)
Shinkaichi (HS 36)	Hanshin Local	Kōsoku Nagata (HS 38)
Shinkaichi (HS 36)	Hanshin Limited Express	Kōsoku Nagata (HS 38)
Shinkaichi (HS 36)	S Limited Express	Kōsoku Nagata (HS 38)
Shinkaichi (HS 36)	Through Limited Express (yellow marking)	Kōsoku Nagata (HS 38)
Through Limited Express (red marking): Does not stop at this station

References

^ ^a ^b Srbulov, Milutin (2011-06-17). Practical Soil Dynamics: Case Studies in Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering. ISBN 9789400713123.
^ 兵庫の鉄道全駅私鉄・公営鉄道 [All railway stations in Hyogo Private railways and public railways] (in Japanese). Japan: Kobe Shimbun. 2012. p. 206. ISBN 9784343006745.
^ "阪神大震災被災と復旧の記録(５)神戸高速鉄道" [Record of Great Hanshin Earthquake Damage and Restoration (5) Kobe Rapid Transit]. 鉄道ファン (in Japanese). 36: 71–75. December 1996.
^ "阪神「三宮」を「神戸三宮」に駅名変更のうえ、駅ナンバリングを導入し、全てのお客さまに分かりやすい駅を目指します" [After changing the station name from Hanshin "Sannomiya" to "Kobe Sannomiya" Introduced station numbering, Aiming for a station that is easy for all customers to understand] (PDF). hanshin.co.jp (in Japanese). 30 April 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-05-12. Retrieved 10 January 2022.