Imazu (Hyogo)

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Imazu Station is actually two adjoining stations in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, linked by a pedestrian deck: one served by Hankyu Railway's Imazu Line (HK-21), the other by Hanshin Electric Railway's Main Line (HS-16). Hankyu opened its station on 18 December 1926 when the Imazu Line was extended from Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi; Hanshin opened its own Imazu Station the next day as a connecting stop, renaming the older station to its east as Kusugawa. The lines' tracks were once physically joined, until a 1949 runaway-train accident severed the connection. Hankyu's platforms were rebuilt elevated in 1995 and Hanshin's in 2001; Hanshin's were lengthened again in 2019 to accommodate through-running Kintetsu Nara Line trains.

The station's unusual footprint — two separately operated stations sharing only a connecting passage — is said to have inspired the Japanese novel Kessen Nippon Series (決戦・日本シリーズ).