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27-724: Takarazuka is located in the northern part of the Hanshin area, surrounded by the Rokko Range to the west and the Nagao mountain range to the north, with the Muko River flowing through the center. Hyōgo Prefecture Takarazuka has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light snowfall. The average annual temperature in Takarazuka is 14.0 °C. The average annual rainfall

54-481: A border adjustment with the city of Itami on April 1, 1955. On January 17, 1995 the Great Hanshin earthquake caused more than 100 casualties. Takarazuka was designated as a Special City on April 1, 2003 with increased autonomy. At one time, the idea was raised of merging Takarazuka with Itami , Kawanishi , and Inagawa , but it is currently on hold. Takarazuka has a mayor-council form of government with

81-777: A directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 26 members. Takarazuka contributes three members to the Hyōgo Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is divided between the Hyōgo 6th districts of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Takarazuka has a mixed economy of commerce, manufacturing and market gardening. It is increasingly becoming a bedroom community for Osaka and Kobe , with quiet, upscale residential neighborhoods like Nigawa, Obayashi, Sakasegawa, and Hibarigaoka. Takazuka has 23 public elementary schools and 12 public middle schools operated by

108-437: A holding company and was renamed Hankyu Holdings, Inc. ( 阪急ホールディングス株式会社 , Hankyū Hōrudhingusu Kabushiki-gaisha ) . The railway business was ceded to a subsidiary, now named Hankyu Corporation (before the restructuring, the new company which reused a dormant company founded on December 7, 1989, was called "Act Systems" ( 株式会社アクトシステムズ ) until March 28, 2004, then "Hankyū Dentetsu Bunkatsu Junbi K.K." ( 阪急電鉄分割準備株式会社 ) from

135-483: Is maroon . The Hankyu network serves 1,950,000 people every weekday and offers several types of express service with no extra charge. The head offices of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings , Inc. and Hankyu Corporation are at 1-16-1, Shibata, Kita-ku, Osaka ; both companies' registered headquarters are at 1-1, Sakaemachi, Ikeda , Osaka Prefecture . The Takarazuka Revue , an all-female musical theatre performance company,

162-536: Is 1578 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 25.7 °C, and lowest in January, at around 2.6 °C. Per Japanese census data, the population of Takarazuka has been increasing steadily since the 1950s. The area of Takarazuka was part of ancient Settsu Province and has been inhabited since ancient times, with many kofun burial mounds found within

189-531: Is 931 metres (3,050 ft). It also includes Mount Maya , Mount Kabutoyama , Mount Iwahara and Mount Iwakura . Today, the Rokkō mountain area is a centerpiece of a popular sightseeing and hiking area for people in the metropolitan Kansai region . Mt. Rokkō is a symbol of Kobe as well as Osaka . Arthur Hasketh Groom opened the first golf course in Japan, Kobe Golf Club , on Mt. Rokko in 1903. Mount Rokkō

216-618: Is a Japanese private railway company that provides commuter and interurban service to the northern Kansai region and is one of the flagship properties of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., in turn part of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group (which includes H 2 O Retailing Corporation and Toho Co., the creator of Godzilla ). The railway's main terminal is at Umeda Station in Osaka. The signature color of Hankyu cars

243-582: Is a transfer station to the Nose Railway , which runs primarily within Kawanishi. [REDACTED] JR West - Fukuchiyama Line [REDACTED] Hankyu - Takarazuka Main Line [REDACTED] Hankyu - Imazu Line Takarazuka is twinned with: Mount Rokko Mount Rokkō ( 六甲山 , Rokkō-san ) is the name of a range of mountains in southeastern Hyōgo Prefecture , Japan . There

270-479: Is no single mountain or peak called "Rokkō," although the highest peak of the mountains is called Rokkōsan-Saikōhō ( 六甲山最高峰 ) , (literally, the highest peak of the Rokkō Mountains ) and the area to the south is known as the Rokkō area. The mountains run approximately east-west from Sumaura Kōen Park in western Kobe to Takarazuka , and the length of the range is about 56 km (35 mi). The highest point

297-552: Is well known as a division of the Hankyu railway company; all of its members are employed by Hankyu. The name Hankyu is an abbreviation of Keihanshin Kyūko ( 京阪神急行 ) . Keihanshin ( 京阪神 ) refers to the area served by Hankyu trains, comprising the cities of Kyoto ( 京都 ) , Osaka ( 大阪 ) and Kobe ( 神戸 ) , along with the suburbs that connect them to each other. Kyūko ( 急行 ) means "express train(s)". In 1907,

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324-1324: The Keihan Main Line , the Uji Line , the Shinkeihan Line (present-day Kyoto Main Line), the Senriyama Line (present-day Senri Line), the Jūsō Line (part of Kyoto Main Line), the Arashiyama Line , the Keishin Line and the Ishiyama Sakamoto Line . The Katano Line was also added in 1945. On December 1, 1949, the Keihan Main Line, the Katano Line, the Uji Line, the Keishin Line, and the Ishiyama-Sakamoto Line were split off to become part of

351-775: The Nishinomiya Stadium as the team's home field was completed near Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi Station . The Hankyu Braves (named in 1947) played until the 1988 season and became the predecessors of the present-day Orix Buffaloes . On October 1, 1943, under the order of the government, Hanshin Kyūkō and Keihan Electric Railway were merged, and renamed Keihanshin Kyūkō Railway Company ( 京阪神急行電鉄株式会社 , Keihanshin Kyūkō Dentetsu Kabushiki-gaisha , referred to as "Keihanshin", 京阪神 ) . The merged lines included

378-648: The Itami Line from Tsukaguchi to Itami were opened. On April 1, 1936, the Kobe Main Line was extended from Nishi-Nada (present-day Ōji-kōen) to the new terminal in Kobe (present-day Kobe-Sannomiya Station ), and the Kobe Main Line from Nishi-Nada to Kamitsutsui was named the Kamitsutsui Line, which was abandoned on May 20, 1940. In 1936, Hankyu established a professional baseball team and in 1937

405-993: The Kobe Main Line started through service to the Kobe Rapid Transit Railway Tozai Line and the Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line . On December 6, 1969, the Kyoto Main Line and the Senri Line started through service to the Osaka Municipal Subway Sakaisuji Line . In 1970, the Senri Line was one of access routes to the Expo '70 held in Senri area. On April 1, 1973, Keihanshin Kyūkō Railway Company assumed its current name. On April 1, 2005, former Hankyu Corporation became

432-648: The Minoo Arima Electric Tramway Company ( 箕面有馬電気軌道株式会社 , Minoo Arima Denki Kidō Kabushiki-gaisha ) , a forerunner of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings , Inc., was established by Ichizō Kobayashi (precisely, he was one of the "promoters" of the tramway). On 10 March 1910, Minoo Arima Tramway opened the rail lines from Umeda to Takarazuka (the Takarazuka Main Line ) and from Ishibashi to Minoo (the Minoo Line ). The tramway

459-651: The center of the train (exceptions are noted below). The Kobe Line and Takarazuka Line use the same fleet. Some former Hankyu trains, such as the 2000 series and 3100 series , have been transferred to the Nose Electric Railway . Single fare (adult) in Japanese Yen by travel distance is as follows. Fares for children (6–11 years old) are half the adult fare, rounded up to the nearest 10 yen. October 1, 2019 For fare collection, IC cards ( PiTaPa , ICOCA and others) are accepted. The fare rate

486-630: The city government, and five public high schools operated by the Hyōgo Prefectural Board of Education. There are three private elementary schools, two private middle schools and two private high schools. In addition, the prefecture also operates one special education school for the handicapped. Kawanishi is serviced by the JR Takarazuka Line and the Hankyu Takarazuka Line . Hankyu's Kawanishi-Noseguchi Station

513-682: The city limits. The Mefu Jinja dates from the Nara period . From the Heian period , numerous landed estates shōen controlled by the Fujiwara family were developed in the area. Takarazuka onsen is mentioned in Kamakura period records. In the Muromachi period , Kohama town developed as a temple town for Kōshō-ji, and subsequently Kohama Inn was established as a post station on Arima Road. The area

540-851: The lines, the Kobe Lines, the Takarazuka Lines and the Kyoto Lines, can be further grouped into two, the Kobe-Takarazuka Lines and the Kyoto Lines from a historical reason. Hankyu has two groups of rolling stock, one for the Kobe-Takarazuka Lines and the other for the Kyoto Lines. The Keihan and Ōtsu Lines were transferred to Keihan Electric Railway Co., Ltd. which separated from Keihanshin Kyūkō (now Hankyu) on December 1, 1949. As of March 31, 2010 , Hankyu had 1,319 cars for passenger service. Standard cars have three pairs of doors per side and bench seating facing

567-575: The newly established Keihan Electric Railway Co., Ltd. Although this revived the former Keihan Electric Railway, Keihan was now smaller than before the 1943 merger, because the Shinkeihan Line and its branches were not given up by Keihanshin. The present structure of the Hankyu network with the three main lines was fixed by this transaction. The abbreviation of Keihanshin Kyūkō Railway was changed from "Keihanshin" to "Hankyū". On April 7, 1968,

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594-497: The next day). On October 1, 2006, Hankyu Holdings became the wholly owning parent company of Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd. and the holdings were renamed Hankyu Hanshin Holdings , Inc. . Hankyu's stock purchase of Hanshin shares was completed on June 20, 2006. Hankyu operates three main trunk lines, connecting Osaka with Kobe , Takarazuka and Kyoto respectively, and their branches. The three groups of

621-687: Was a center of the culture from the 1910s to 1940s in what has been dubbed the age of Hanshinkan Modernism . This included the opening of the Takarazuka Girls' Opera (current Takarazuka Revue ) on April 1, 1914. Kohama was elevated to town status on March 15, 1951, changing its name to Takarazuka. On April 1 1954 it merged with the village of Yoshimoto (吉本村) in Muko District to become the city of Takarazuka. The city continued to expand by annexing Nagao Village on March 10, 1955, and Nishitani Village on March 14, 1955, but losing some areas in

648-618: Was changed on April 1, 2014, to reflect the change in the rate of consumption tax from 5% to 8%, and again on October 1, 2019, from 8% to 10%. A 2-car Hankyu train was featured in the 1988 Japanese animated war drama Grave of the Fireflies . One 2008 book by the Japanese writer Hiro Arikawa , Hankyu Densha , occurs entirely on the Hankyu–Imazu line, in the north-west suburbs of Osaka, where various characters meet and interact in

675-684: Was mostly tenryō territory under direct control of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Edo Period . The village of Kohama (小浜村) was established on April 1, 1889 within Kawabe District, Hyōgo , with the creation of the modern municipalities system. In 1897, Hankaku Railroad (current Fukuchiyama Line ) completed. In 1910, the Minoh Arima Electric Railway (current Hankyu Takarazuka Main Line completed). Takarazuka

702-552: Was popular due to Kobayashi's pioneering act to develop housing around stations along the line (a first in Japan), a forerunner to transit-oriented developments . On February 4, 1918, Minoo Arima Tramway was renamed Hanshin Kyūkō Railway Company ( 阪神急行電鉄株式会社 , Hanshin Kyūkō Dentetsu Kabushiki-gaisha , referred to as "Hankyū", 阪急 ) . On July 16, 1920, the Kobe Main Line from Jūsō to Kobe (later, renamed Kamitsutsui) and

729-859: Was the first place to introduce rock climbing to the Japanese by Kuzou Fujiki who established the first rock climbing club in Japan in 1924. For many years, lenses made by the Minolta Camera Company were designated as " Rokkor ", named after the mountains near Osaka, where the company was headquartered. The theme song of the Baseball Team Hanshin Tigers is named Rokko Oroshi (六甲おろし) and themed after Mt. Rokko. Hankyu Railway Hankyu Corporation ( 阪急電鉄株式会社 , Hankyū Dentetsu kabushiki gaisha , lit.   ' Hankyu Electric Railway Stock Company ' ) , trading as Hankyu Railway ( 阪急電鉄 , Hankyū Dentetsu , lit.   ' Hankyu Electric Railway ' ) ,

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