Keisan Kagaku Center Station

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Keisan Kagaku Center Station 計算科学センター駅
Station exterior
General information
Location	Chūō-ku, Kobe Japan
Coordinates	34°39′17″N 135°13′17″E / 34.6548°N 135.2215°E / 34.6548; 135.2215
Operated by	Kobe New Transit
Line(s)	Port Island Line
Distance	5.4 km from Sannomiya[1]
Platforms	1 island platforms
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Other information
Station code	P08
History
Opened	February 2, 2006 (2006-02-02)
Previous names	Port Island Minami (until 2011) K Computer Mae (until 2021)
Passengers
3,911 per day (2017)[2]

Keisan Kagaku Center Station (計算科学センター駅, Keisan Kagaku Sentā Eki) is a railway station operated by Kobe New Transit in Chūō-ku, Kobe, Japan. It is located on Port Island and is served by the Port Island Line. The station name is taken from the nearby Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science. The station is subtitled as Kobe Animal Kingdom, Fugaku Mae (神戸どうぶつ王国・「富岳」前), named after the nearby theme park and the supercomputer located in the institute.^[1]

The station was originally named Port Island Minami Station (ポートアイランド南駅).^[3] On 1 July 2011, the station was renamed to K Computer Mae Station (京コンピュータ前駅, Kei Konpyūta Mae Eki) with the namesake of K computer, the supercomputer then being developed at the institute.^[4] Following the decommissioning of K computer, the station was renamed to the current name on 19 June 2021.