Itami (Hankyu)

Weekday departures: 125/day · Sat & holiday departures: 104/day

First / last train (weekday): 0:07 / 23:39

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (10)

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• Hankyū Itami Line: Shinitami

Itami Station opened on 16 July 1920 as the terminus of the Hanshin Express Electric Railway (today's Hankyu) Itami Line, in Nishidai 1-chōme, Itami, Hyōgo. The original station (about 150 metres south-east of the current site, at today's Chūō 4-chōme) was a single ground-level island platform with two tracks and a westward siding. Elevation works began on 25 July 1967 and were completed on 9 November 1968, when the station was moved to its present site (the former Nippon Life ground) as a two-island, four-track elevated station, the second in Japan after Kita-Senri on the Senri Line to be equipped with automated ticket gates. The station building collapsed in the Great Hanshin Earthquake on 17 January 1995 — a Hyōgo Prefectural Police officer working in the building's koban was among the dead — and the line between Shin-Itami and Itami was cut. A temporary terminus opened 400 metres south on 11 March 1995. The new five-storey "Reita" station building was completed on 20 November 1998, with the station moving back onto its third floor the following day. Station numbering (HK-20) was introduced on 21 December 2013.

When the new "Reita" station was rebuilt after the earthquake, the ticket gates and platforms were placed on the same floor and linked by ramps, a barrier-free design decision that earned it a place in the first "Best 100 Stations in the Kinki Region". The original 1968 station had a fourth track left without rails as space for a planned line extension; that licence expired in 2005 with no extension built, and the rebuilt 1998 station was no longer designed to be extendable.