[1] Although technically situated in Amagasaki, it is a five-minute walk to neighboring Osaka Prefecture.

The station consists of two elevated island platforms serving four tracks and a single unnumbered side platform outside the inbound siding track.

[5] Below the station itself exists a small shopping centre called Sonoda Hankyu Plaza (園田阪急プラザ) which undertook a major renovation completed at the end of April 2006.

It now consists of many restaurants, a Matsumoto Kiyoshi pharmacy, a Mister Donut, a branch of the Kohyo chain of supermarket, a Docomo mobile phone shop as well as various smaller retailers.

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