This is a scene of trains arriving and departing one after another at Kosoku Kobe Station on the Hanshin/Hankyu Kobe Rapid Line during the evening rush hours on weekdays in Japan (around 17:00 to 19:30). Hankyu Railway cars departing from and arriving at Shinkaichi, Hankyu Kobe Line limited express cars, Hanshin Electric Railway's direct limited express, limited express, and local (local) cars, as well as Sanyo Electric Railway cars (direct limited express, S limited express, local) from Himeji. It is a station where you can see the vehicles of Hankyu, Hanshin, and Sanyo at the same time.
Hankyu Railway and Hanshin Railway's "Expo wrapping trains", Hanshin Railway's "Hanshin Tigers Japan No. 1 Commemoration" wrapping train and train with head mark (5001 type), "Koshien Stadium 100th Anniversary" wrapping train, Hankyu Railway's Chikawa wrapping In addition to the "Hachiware" train, Sanyo Electric Railway also ran vehicles with the "VISSEL KOBE WINNER" head mark and the "100th anniversary of Akashi-Himeji opening" head mark.
Hankyu Railway's vehicles were also seen with the head marks of ``Saikoku Shichifukujin Meguri'' and ``Hatsumode'' which run at this time of year every year.
An ordinary train (bound for Higashi Suma) using Hanshin Railway's limited express vehicle was also seen.
There is an island-style platform with two sides and four tracks, and the lines for Hankyu and Hanshin branch off on the Osaka side of this station. Platform 1 is for Hankyu Osaka Umeda, Platform 2 is for Hanshin Osaka Umeda, Platform 3 is for Shinkaichi/Himeji from Hankyu, and Platform 4 is for Shinkaichi/Himeji from Hanshin.
Hanshin trains bound for Kobe (stopping at this station) for local and high-speed trains arrive at Platform 4, proceed to the pull-up track, turn around, enter Platform 2, and depart as bound for Osaka Umeda.
Some Sanyo local trains were seen arriving at Platform 3 from Shinkaichi and then turning back to Sanyo Himeji, and others arriving at Platform 2 bound for Kobe Kobe and then turning back to Shinkaichi.
Although it is also a Hankyu station where Hankyu trains depart from and arrive at Shinkaichi, the broadcasting etc. were the same as a Hanshin train station.
It used to be a line and station for the Kobe Rapid Railway, but now it is owned by the company that owns the facility, and this section is operated by Hanshin and Hankyu as the Kobe Rapid Line.
Motomachi - Kosoku Kobe - Shinkaichi - Nishidai...Hanshin Kobe Rapid Line
Hankyu Kobe Sannomiya - Kosoku Kobe - Shinkaichi...Hankyu Kobe Kosoku Line
(Hanshin and Hankyu lines overlap between Kobe Expressway and Shinkaichi)
00:00 Each train (Kobe Rapid Line)
00:31 Chikawa/Hachiware No. 1
01:15 Each train
02:53 Chikawa/Hachiware No. 2
03:46 Each train
06:56 Ordinary bound for Higashi Suma (Hanshin Train)
07:46 Each train
08:20 Hankyu/Hanshin Line 1 (Hankyu Expo Wrapping 1)
09:16 Each train
12:14 Hankyu Expo Wrapping 2
13:18 Each train
13:44 S Limited Express 1 (Hanshin Kobe Sannomiya bound)
14:24 Each train
17:03 Vissel Kobe winning head mark
18:03 Saigoku Seven Lucky Gods Tour Head Mark
19:22 Each train
24:01 S Limited Express 2 (Hanshin Kobe Sannomiya bound)
24:49 Each train
25:58 Type 50001 Hanshin Nippon Ichi head mark
26:16 Each train
26:47 Koshien Stadium 100th anniversary wrapping
27:58 Each train
29:40 Hanshin Nippon Ichi Wrapping (Arrival)
29:57 Hanshin Express Express bound for Kobe (arrival)
30:07 Hanshin Nippon Ichi wrapping (departure)
30:34 Each train
31:09 Hanshin Limited Express bound for Kobe (departure)
31:35 Each train
32:56 Departure (Hanshin Express return)
33:35 Each train
37:46 Hanshin Expo wrapping
38:31 Hankyu/Hanshin line 2 (Hatsumode head mark)
41:17 Sanyo local express bound for Kobe (arrival)
41:49 Each train
42:19 Hankyu/Sanyo line up (side by side)
42:50 New Year's visit head mark (back)
43:10 Each train