Sogo Undo Koen

Weekday departures: 345/day · Sat & holiday departures: 304/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:32 / 24:12

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (28)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Seishin Extension Line: Gakuentoshi ⇄ Myōdani

Sōgō Undō Kōen Station opened on 18 June 1985 on the Kobe Municipal Subway Seishin-Yamate Line in Suma-ku, Kobe, taking its name from the surrounding Kobe Sports Park. A rapid service was introduced on 9 July 1993, with the station treated as a rapid stop only when major events were held nearby. The station was damaged in the Great Hanshin earthquake on 17 January 1995 but returned to single-track service the next day on a temporary basis, with double-track operations between Myōdani and Gakuentoshi resumed on 25 January and the suspended rapid abandoned on 21 July. A 1999 schedule revision increased evening service frequency. The unusual three-platform two-track surface layout, set in a cutting, was once the highest-elevation subway station in Japan at roughly 103 metres.

At about 103 metres above sea level, the station held the unusual distinction of being Japan's highest-elevation subway station until the Sendai Subway Tōzai Line's Yagiyama Zoological Park Station opened at 136 metres in December 2015.