Welcome to “Nishinomiya Railroad Crossings,” a laid-back series introducing railroad crossings around Nishinomiya.
For the 7th installment, we’re introducing “Kurakuen-guchi Railroad Crossing,” located north of Kurakuen-guchi Station on the Hankyu Koyo Line.
Here’s where the crossing is↓↓
If you head this way, you’ll find Taishoan.
If you go this way, you’ll find FUKUI Liquor Store. Follow the curve on the left and you’ll head toward Koshikiiwa-suji.
The view from the crossing toward Hankyu Koyoen Station. The tracks look straight, but on the map you can see they actually curve to the right～
Like this↓↓
“© OpenStreetMap contributors”
The photo shows a Hankyu train crossing the Shukugawa railway bridge, running from Koyoen Station toward Kurakuen-guchi Station.
It curves and passes over the Shukugawa River～
While we’re at it, here’s a photo from around 1953 of a train crossing the same bridge, from a different angle～😀
*Source: Nishinomiya City’s Showa, p.116
▼Crossing the Shukugawa railway bridge
A wooden train passing over the Shukugawa railway bridge between Koyoen and Kurakuen-guchi. (Ishibane-cho to Kitanaiji-cho, photographed around 1953 by Kenzo Kiji)
Looking the other way, you can see the platform of Kurakuen-guchi Station. From Kurakuen-guchi Station, the line passes “Kurakuen Railroad Crossing,” “Matsuo-cho Kita Railroad Crossing,” “Gakkodo Railroad Crossing,” “Kudegawa Railroad Crossing,” and “Aioi-cho Railroad Crossing” on the way to Shukugawa Station.
