Mikage (Hyogo · Hanshin)

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Mikage Station opened on 12 April 1905, the same day the Hanshin Main Line itself opened, as a street-level stop south of its present site. On 27 July 1929 it was rebuilt at its current location as an elevated station, part of the line's wider grade-separation project. It now has an elevated layout with two island-style platforms and four tracks; the platforms sit on a sharp curve that caps on-site speed at 35 km/h, are narrow with no air-conditioned waiting room, and are reached through a single ground-level gate. The Great Hanshin earthquake halted service in January 1995, with the line fully restored by that June. Numbered HS-25, Mikage today serves Higashinada Ward in Kobe, adjoining the Mikage Classe shopping complex.

South of the station, "Valentine Square" traces to a 1936 advertisement in an English-language newspaper published in Tokyo, in which the nearby confectioner Morozoff urged readers to give chocolate for Valentine's Day, a claim advanced as the custom's birthplace in Japan; Kobe uses the Valentine name there with permission from Terni, Italy, a city associated with Saint Valentine with which Kobe has maintained an exchange since 1986.