Asaka (Osaka)

Weekday departures: 160/day · Sat & holiday departures: 160/day

First / last train (weekday): 0:23 / 24:09

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (10)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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• JR Hanwa Line: Sugimotocho ⇄ Sakaishi

Asaka Station opened on 3 September 1937 as Hanwa-Asakayama Stop on the Hanwa Electric Railway’s line through southern Osaka. It was renamed Yamate-Asakayama Stop on 1 August 1941, and adopted its present name Asaka on 1 May 1944. The station passed to Japanese National Railways and then to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Station numbering was introduced in March 2018, assigning Asaka the code JR-R27. Today it sits on the Hanwa Line 7.9 kilometres from the northern terminus at Tennōji with two opposed side platforms beneath an elevated station building.

The station has carried three names in seven years: opening as Hanwa-Asakayama in 1937, becoming Yamate-Asakayama in 1941, and finally Asaka in 1944.