Otemae College

Otemae University (Japanese: 大手前大学 Ōtemae Daigaku) is a liberal arts oriented school that began in 1946. Located in the Kansai region of Japan, the university has a campus in Osaka and a co-educational branch in Nishinomiya. A third campus for freshman students previously existed in Itami, but it was disbanded and subsequently demolished in 2021.The university boasts research institutes specializing in history and intercultural studies. Notably, the Nishinomiya campus includes a traditional Japanese teahouse. Study abroad programs are offered by the school to Canada, China, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Inano Station (稲野駅, Inano-eki) is a Hankyu railway station in Itami, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The station number is HK-18. Prior to opening, the station was temporarily called Itamiguchi (伊丹口).

Shin-Itami Station (新伊丹駅, Shin-Itami-eki) is a train station in Itami, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.

Tsukaguchi Station (塚口駅, Tsukaguchi-eki, station number: HK-06) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Amagasaki Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company Hankyu Railway.

Tsukaguchi Station (塚口駅, Tsukaguchi-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Itami, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West).

Itami Station (伊丹駅, Itami-eki) is a train station in Itami, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan that serves as the northern terminus of the Itami Line.

The second siege of Itami Castle (伊丹城の戦い), also called the siege of Arioka Castle (有岡城の戦い) during the Sengoku period of Japanese history, occurred in 1579, five years after it was seized by Oda Nobunaga in Siege of Itami (1574) from Itami clan, and entrusted the Castle to Araki Murashige.

Itami Station (伊丹駅, Itami-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Itami, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West)..The station is connected to a large indoor mall to the northwest by a broad pedestrian bridge. Though Hankyu Itami Station is not within easy walking distance, there is also a series of broad pedestrian streets heading in its direction.

The 1574 siege of Itami (伊丹の戦い, Itami no Tatakai) was the first time Itami Castle would be attacked.

Sonoda Women's University (園田学園女子大学, Sonoda gakuen joshi daigaku) is a private women's college in Amagasaki, Japan, established in 1966.

The Amagasaki derailment (JR福知山線脱線事故, JR Fukuchiyama-sen dassen jiko, lit. "JR Fukuchiyama Line derailment") occurred in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, on 25 April 2005 at 09:19 local time (00:19 UTC), just after the local rush hour. It occurred when a seven-car commuter train came off the tracks on West Japan Railway Company's (JR West) Fukuchiyama Line in just before Amagasaki on its way for Dōshisha-mae via the JR Tōzai Line and the Gakkentoshi Line, and the front two cars rammed into an apartment building. The first car slid into the first-floor parking garage and as a result took days to remove, while the second slammed into the corner of the building, being crushed into an L-shaped against it by the weight of the remaining cars. Of the roughly 700 passengers (initial estimate was 580 passengers) on board at the time of the crash, 106 passengers, in addition to the driver, were killed and 562 others injured. Most survivors and witnesses claimed that the train appeared to have been travelling too fast. The incident was Japan's most serious since the 1963 Tsurumi rail accident.

St.Thomas University, Japan (聖トマス大学, Sei tomasu daigaku), formerly known as Sapientia University or Eichi University (英知大学, Eichi daigaku), was a Christian private university in Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan. The school was founded in 1962 as a junior college and became a four-year college in the following year. The name "St. Thomas University" was adopted in 2007. The university stopped enrolling new students in 2010 and, after its last remaining student graduated in 2014, announced its closure and revealed its intention to donate its facilities to the city of Amagasaki.