Dobutsuen-mae

Weekday departures: 185/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 168/day+

First / last train (weekday): 5:30 / 23:41

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (16)

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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 Municipal Subway Sakaisuji Line: Ebisucho (Osaka) ⇄ Tengachaya

Dōbutsuen-mae Station opened on 21 April 1938 with the southward extension of Osaka Subway Line 1 (today's Midōsuji Line) from Namba to Tennōji. (During planning the stop was successively called Minami-Kasumichō, then Tennōji-Kōen, before the present name was authorised by Ministry approval on 22 March 1938.) The Sakaisuji Line opened on 6 December 1969 with this station as its initial terminus; on 4 March 1993 that line was extended to Tengachaya. Midōsuji Line platforms were lengthened by 20 m towards Tennōji in March 1990 to handle 10-car trains, and Exit 7 was closed on 1 June 2012. Operations were transferred to Osaka Metro on 1 April 2018 at the municipal-transport privatisation. Platform-edge doors entered service on 22 January 2022 on the Midōsuji Line platforms and on 28 August 2022 on the Sakaisuji Line.

Although the station is named for Tennōji Zoo, most zoo visitors actually enter from neighbouring Tennōji Station's north-west gate; Dōbutsuen-mae functions chiefly as an interchange between the Midōsuji and Sakaisuji Lines. The Midōsuji Line platform walls are decorated with animal illustrations.