Sannomiya Station (JR West)

Sannomiya Station (三ノ宮駅, Sannomiya eki) is a railway station in Nunobiki-chō, Chūō-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, and is operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West).

As a part of the JR West Urban Network, the following IC cards are accepted: ICOCA, Suica, PiTaPa, TOICA, and SUGOCA.

At the beginning of the Meiji period commercial and administrative functions were centred around Kobe Station.

However, after Kobe opened as a port for foreign trade, and continuing with the post-World War II reconstruction and expansion of commercial areas, as well as moving Kobe City Hall to the Sannomiya area, the district soon became the new city centre.

The distance to the adjacent Motomachi Station is the shortest anywhere on the JR Kobe Line.

Rapid Service trains arriving at and departing from Track 4 in the evening do not stop at three stations: Suma, Tarumi and Maiko.

The area around Sannomiya Station is the largest business and shopping district in Kobe City.

All of the other transportation facilities in Sannomiya are written in Japanese as 三宮, without the Katakana character "ノ".

It is thought the reason it was included was to prevent people traveling from other parts of the country from misreading the name.

North Side
Location of the six stations at Sannomiya
Location of the six stations at Sannomiya
South Side of the Station (from the left, Kobe Kōtsū Center Building, Station Building, OPA, Kobe Shimbun Kaikan (M-INT Kobe)
Central Entrance - South Side
Restaurant Area "Dining Road" - In front of the Central Ticket Gate