Hanakuma

Known weekday departures: 256/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 266/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 4:59 / 24:06 (00:06 next day)

Busiest hour (known departures): 9:00–10:00 (21)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• Kobe Kosoku Tozai Line: Kobe Sannomiya ⇄ Kosoku Kobe

Hanakuma Station opened on 7 April 1968 as part of the Kobe Rapid Transit Railway's east-west line, whose facilities Kobe Rapid Transit owns as the Class 3 operator while Hankyu runs the services as the Class 2 operator. It is the westernmost and southernmost station Hankyu operates and is treated as the railway's de facto Motomachi stop, since Hankyu — unlike JR and Hanshin — has no station bearing that name. Trains were suspended on 17 January 1995 by the Great Hanshin earthquake; the seven months required to restore the Kobe Line saw Hanakuma host turnback service to Shinkaichi from 6 February and through service from Hankyu Sannomiya from 1 June 1995. Station numbering as HK-17 was introduced on 21 December 2013, and an elevator entered service on 14 March 2020.

Sanyō Electric Railway limited expresses stopped at Hanakuma until April 1991, when they began running through without stopping; stops resumed in February 1998, and in March 2001 the Sanyō limited expresses to and from Hankyu Sannomiya were abolished, ending Sanyō through running to the station altogether.