Bentencho

Weekday departures: 875/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 875/day+

First / last train (weekday): 5:03 / 24:11

Busiest hour: 18:00–19:00 (58)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map. Some lines at this station are not yet in our schedule data, so these counts are a minimum.

• Osaka Loop Line: Nishikujo ⇄ Taisho (Osaka)

Bentenchō Station opened in two parts — the JNR Osaka Loop Line station on 25 April 1961 between Nishi-Kujō and the Sakaigawa Signal Box, then the Osaka Municipal Subway 4th Line (today the Chuo Line) Bentenchō Station on 11 December 1961, making it a transfer point. The Chuo Line was extended on 31 October 1964, the station passed to JR West on 1 April 1987, and a north exit financed mainly by the city opened in July 1990. ICOCA and PiTaPa became usable in November 2003 and February 2006 respectively, and the long-standing Transportation Science Museum closed beside the JR station on 6 April 2014, with portions of its collection moving to the Kyoto Railway Museum that opened in April 2016. A new JR station building entered service on 1 March 2025.

The Osaka Metro platform is the highest geometric subway platform in Japan, sitting on a viaduct deck above the JR station.