Nishinomiya (Hanshin)

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Nishinomiya Station opened on 12 April 1905 with the Hanshin Main Line's completion, serving the old town center near Nishinomiya Shrine. It is often called "Hanshin Nishinomiya" to distinguish it from JR West's same-named station and Hankyu's Nishinomiya-kitaguchi Station. The station was damaged in the Great Hanshin earthquake of 17 January 1995, with service fully restored by 26 June 1995. Elevating the line to clear road crossings began in 1980 and proceeded cautiously over concerns for the Miyamizu underground water veins, finishing in 2001, when it absorbed the Nishinomiya-Higashiguchi Station. Today the elevated station has two island platforms across four tracks and is the northernmost stop on the Hanshin network, serving Nishinomiya City Hall and the Ebista Nishinomiya shopping complex.

In 1908, Hanshin Electric Railway commissioned Ōwada Tateki — the poet behind Japan's famous "Railway Song" (Tetsudō Shōka) — to write a promotional song for the line, and its verses about Nishinomiya describe worshippers visiting Nishinomiya Shrine and a seaside bathing beach that existed there at the time.