Daikai Station

Daikai

大開
Daikai; 大開
	Hanshin Kobe Kosoku Line Daikai Station platforms
Owned by	Kobe Rapid Transit Railway
Operated by	Hanshin Electric Railway
Line(s)	Kobe Kosoku Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	HS37
History
Opened	April 7, 1968
Rebuilt	January 18, 1995 – January 17, 1996

Daikai Station (大開駅, Daikai-eki, station number: HS 37) is a train station on the Hanshin Railway Kobe Kosoku Line in Hyōgo-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It was the first underground structure not crossing an active fault that has completely collapsed during an earthquake without liquefaction of the surrounding soil and was well-documented.

History[]

In the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995, this station collapsed.

Layout[]

The Daikai Station consists of three main sections: the main section of the station, the subway tunnels section and the station access section.^[1] The location of the station is made up of 2 meter thick man made fill, around 5 meter thick Holocene alluvial deposits, and several kilometers of Pleistocene deposits.^[1]

Adjacent stations[]

«	Service
Hanshin Railway Kobe Kosoku Line (HS 37)
Shinkaichi (HS 36)	Sanyo Local	Kōsoku Nagata (HS 38)
Shinkaichi (HS 36)	Hanshin Local	Kōsoku Nagata (HS 38)
Shinkaichi (HS 36)	Hanshin Limited Express	Kōsoku Nagata (HS 38)
Shinkaichi (HS 36)	S Limited Express	Kōsoku Nagata (HS 38)
Shinkaichi (HS 36)	Through Limited Express (yellow marking)	Kōsoku Nagata (HS 38)
Through Limited Express (red marking): Does not stop at this station

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Srbulov, Milutin (2011-06-17). Practical Soil Dynamics: Case Studies in Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering. ISBN 9789400713123.

Coordinates: 34°40′17″N 135°09′41″E / 34.6713°N 135.1615°E / 34.6713; 135.1615

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[PSD-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Srbulov, Milutin (2011-06-17). Practical Soil Dynamics: Case Studies in Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering. ISBN 9789400713123.

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