Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station

Location
	Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station Location within Osaka Prefecture Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station (Japan)

Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station

ドーム前千代崎駅
Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station; ドーム前千代崎駅
Rail station
	Station platform
General information
Location	Chiyozaki Sanchome, Nishi, Osaka, Osaka; （大阪市西区千代崎三丁目）; Japan
Coordinates	34°40′14.77″N 135°28′45.79″E / 34.6707694°N 135.4793861°E
Operated by	Osaka Metro; Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd.
Line(s)	Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line; Hanshin Namba Line
Other information
Station code	N 12 HS 43 (Hanshin)
History
Opened	August 29, 1997 (Osaka Metro), 2009 (Hanshin)
Previous names	Osaka Dome-mae Chiyozaki (until 2006)
Services
Location
Location
	Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station Location within Osaka Prefecture Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station (Japan)

Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station (ドーム前千代崎駅, Dōmu-mae Chiyozaki-eki) is a railway station and metro station on the Osaka Metro Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line in Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan. The station has the secondary station name Kyocera Dome Osaka.

Dome-mae Station (ドーム前駅, Dōmu-mae eki) is also a nearby station on the Hanshin Electric Railway Hanshin Namba Line near Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station.

Lines

Osaka Metro Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line (N12: Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station)
Hanshin Electric Railway Hanshin Namba Line (HS 43: Dome-mae Station)

Layout

Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station (Osaka Metro)

The station has an island platform serving 2 tracks on the 4th basement and the platform is equipped with platform gates. On the 2nd basement, there are extra ticket machines on the opposite side of the ticket gates for the events at Osaka Dome (Kyocera Dome Osaka).

1	■ Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line	for Shinsaibashi, Morinomiya, Kyobashi and Kadomaminami
2	■ Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line	to Taisho

Dome-mae Station (Hanshin Railway)

This station has 5 levels underground in order to take passengers from Osaka Dome (Kyocera Dome Osaka) smoothly. The 2nd basement functions as the ticket gate area and the 5th basement contains an island platform serving two tracks. Approximately 160 thousand bricks are used for the wall of the platform and tracks because there was formerly an Osaka Gas factory near this station which was made out of bricks.^[1] The passage to ÆON Mall Osaka Dome City is located in front of the ticket gates.

1	■ Hanshin Namba Line	for Ōsaka Namba and Nara
2	■ Hanshin Namba Line	for Amagasaki, Koshien and Kobe Sannomiya Change trains at Amagasaki or Kobe Sannnomiya for Akashi and Himeji

History

August 29, 1997: Osaka Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station (大阪ドーム前千代崎駅, Ōsaka-Dōmu-mae-Chiyozaki eki) on the Osaka Municipal Subway Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line was opened for the extension of the line from Shinsaibashi to Taisho.
December 24, 2006: Osaka Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station was renamed Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station on the same day the Imazatosuji Line was opened.
March 20, 2009: Dome-mae Station was opened for the opening of the Hanshin Railway Hanshin Namba Line.
August 28, 2010: The platform gates became in use on the platform of Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station.

Surroundings

Osaka Dome (July 1, 2006–: Kyocera Dome Osaka)
Osaka Metro Co., Ltd. / Osaka City Bus Corporation
Osaka Municipal Fire Department, Nishi Fire Station
Osaka Gas Dome City Gas Building
Foleo Osaka Dome City
ÆON Mall Osaka Dome City

Buses

Dome-mae Chiyozaki (Osaka City Bus Corporation)

Route 51 for Tempozan via Bentencho-ekimae and Daisan Tottei-mae
Route 70 for Nishi-Funamachi via Taisho Kuyakusho-mae (ward office)
Route 70 Express for Nishi-Funamachi via Taisho Kuyakusho-mae (ward office)
Route 76 for Subway Suminoekoen
Route 90 for Nodahanshin-mae / for Tsurumachi Yonchome via Taisho Kuyakusho-mae (ward office)
Route 91 for Tsurumachi Yonchome via Taisho Kuyakusho-mae (ward office)
Route 91 Express for Tsurumachi Yonchome via Taisho Kuyakusho-mae (ward office)
Route 94 for Tsurumachi Yonchome via Chishima Koen-mae
Route 98 for Taisho Kuyakusho-mae (ward office) via Shin-Chitose

References

^ Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd. "阪神なんば線秘話7" [Hanshin Namba Line Inside Story: Story 7] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on May 30, 2012.

External links

Media related to Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station at Wikimedia Commons

Preceding station	Osaka Metro			Following station
Taishō N 11 Terminus		Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line		Nishi-Nagahori N 13 towards Kadoma-minami

«	Service
Hanshin Railway (HS 43: Dome-mae)
Hanshin Namba Line
Kujo (HS 44)	Local	Sakuragawa (HS 42)
Kujo (HS 44)	Semi-Express Suburban Semi-Express	Sakuragawa (HS 42)
Kujo (HS 44)	Rapid Express	Sakuragawa (HS 42)

[1] Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd. "阪神なんば線秘話7" [Hanshin Namba Line Inside Story: Story 7] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on May 30, 2012.

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