Daikai Station

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.

[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.

[3] Station numbering was introduced on 1 April 2014.

This Hyōgo Prefecture railroad station-related article is a stub.

Above-ground view of the damage caused to Daikai Station following the 1995 Kobe earthquake