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.

Daikai Station 大開
Hanshin Kobe Kosoku Line Daikai Station platforms
General information
Owned by	Kobe Rapid Transit Railway
Operated by	Hanshin Electric Railway
Line(s)	Kobe Kosoku Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	HS37
History
Opened	April 7, 1968
Rebuilt	January 18, 1995 – January 17, 1996

Layout

The Daikai Station consists of three main sections: the main section of the station, the subway tunnels section and the station access section.^[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.^[1]

History

The station opened on 7 April 1968.^[2]

Damage to the station was caused by the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 in which the station collapsed.^[3]

Station numbering was introduced on 1 April 2014.^[4]

Adjacent stations

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

«		Service	»
Hanshin Railway Kobe Kosoku Line (HS 37)
Shinkaichi (HS 36)		Sanyo Local		Kōsoku Nagata (HS 38)
Shinkaichi (HS 36)		Hanshin Local		Kōsoku Nagata (HS 38)
Shinkaichi (HS 36)		Hanshin Limited Express		Kōsoku Nagata (HS 38)
Shinkaichi (HS 36)		S Limited Express		Kōsoku Nagata (HS 38)
Shinkaichi (HS 36)		Through Limited Express (yellow marking)		Kōsoku Nagata (HS 38)
Through Limited Express (red marking): Does not stop at this station