Sumiyoshi (Hanshin Main Line)

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Hanshin Sumiyoshi Station (HS 24) opened on 12 April 1905 with the inauguration of the Hanshin Main Line. The station was elevated from its original road-running tracks in July 1929. The Great Hanshin Earthquake of 17 January 1995 damaged the Hanshin Main Line and temporarily closed the station; service between Aoki and Mikage was restored on 11 February 1995, with full Hanshin Main Line restoration on 26 June 1995. Station numbering (HS 24) was introduced on 1 April 2014. Elevators and movable platform doors are scheduled for service on 29 March 2026.

Hanshin Sumiyoshi sits just 500 m from neighbouring Mikage Station - the shortest inter-station distance on the entire Hanshin Main Line. The 1929 elevated structure remains largely original: distinctive round windows of early Shōwa design ornament the staircases. There is no climate-controlled waiting room - only benches. A short stretch of 'direct-fixation track' (直結軌道) exists west of the down-line, an unusual feature for an at-grade installation. The station shares its name with JR West Sumiyoshi on the JR Kobe Line and Kobe New Transit's Sumiyoshi on the Rokkō Island Line, but those are roughly 1 km away; the proper transfer to the Rokkō Liner is at Uozaki (the next stop east) and the JR Kobe Line connection is made at Kobe-Sannomiya (JR Sannomiya).