Hanshin Railway

Hanshin Railways is part of the larger Hankyu-Hanshin Group that runs both Hanshin and Hankyu trains in the Kansai area of west central Japan.

The kanji compound for Hanshin is made up of the second character of Osaka (阪) and the first character of Kobe (神) and illustrates the railway’s role in connecting these two cities.

Hanshin also owns the popular Hanshin Tigers baseball team of the Central League. The Hanshin Main Line runs to the team’s home ground at Koshien, which is also the mecca for high school baseball in Japan.

The Sanyo shinkansen runs in to Shin-Kobe Station to the north and can be reached by the Seishin-Yamate Line of Kobe subway or local bus.

JR Sannomiya Station, Kobe-Sannomiya Station and Sannomiya-Hanadokeimae Station are all connected by walkways or the underground shopping mall, Santica.