Shin-Kobe Station
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 Shin-Kobe Station
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| Platform tracks | 2 (JR West) 3 (Kobe Subway) |
| abbreviation | シ ヘ ( SHI-HE ) |
| opening | March 15, 1972 (JR) |
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| City / municipality | Kobe |
| prefecture | Hyogo |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 34 ° 42 '23 " N , 135 ° 11' 45" E |
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The Shin-Kobe station ( Japanese 新 神 戸 駅 , Shin-Kobe-eki , literally: New Kobe station ) is the long-distance train station for high-speed trains in the city of Kobe in Japan .
Lines
The following Shinkansen line runs from Shin-Osaka via Shin-Kobe to Hakata :
There is a direct connection via the Tōkaidō line to Tokyo . Coming from Sannomiya binds them
the train station to the city center and runs from here as
through another long subway tunnel of the Hokushin Kyūkō Dentetsu railway company to northern parts of the city .
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Type of construction and tracks
It is a through station with 2 through tracks.
History and location
The station was created with the construction of the San'yō Shinkansen, as a route through the dense urban area and a Shinkansen stop at the Sannomiya or Kobe station would have been disproportionately expensive. Instead, two long tunnels were drilled under the Rokkō massif , from whose tubes the tracks only emerge at this point for the length of the platforms. The Rokkō railway tunnel was 16,250 m in July 2008 and was the 14th longest railway tunnel in the world . The Shin-Kobe train station is connected to the Kobe Airport, which is just under 5 km away, via an almost continuously straight road connection.
It opened on March 15, 1972.
Web links
- Website at JR West (Japanese)
- Website at the Tourist Office of the City of Kobe ( Memento from March 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Japanese)