Kizugawa

Weekday departures: 32/day · Sat & holiday departures: 32/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:13 / 22:13

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

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• Nankai Kōya Line: Ashiharacho ⇄ Tsumori

Kizugawa Station is a ground-level station on the Nankai Kōya Line's Shiomibashi Branch in Kita-Tsumori 1-chōme, Nishinari-ku, Osaka, with station number NK06-3. It opened on 3 September 1900 with the Kōya Railway's Dōtonbori (now Shiomibashi)–Daishōji (now Sakai-higashi) extension and passed through several mergers — Kōya-Tozan Railway (1907), Ōsaka Kōya Railway (1915), Nankai Railway (1922), Kintetsu (1944) — before becoming a Nankai Electric Railway station on 1 June 1947 by line transfer. Despite once handling lumber from the Kii Mountains transhipped via the Kizu-gawa River for Osaka's timber yards, the station today recorded just 141 average daily passengers in 2019 — the lowest of any rail station in the City of Osaka — and is occasionally called the "unexplored region in the big city" (大都会の中の秘境駅). The host district, Nishinari-ku, is one of the 24 wards of Osaka City and was created in the 1925 second city-area expansion; the ward name preserves the old Nishinari-gun place name, and the ward's westernmost edge along the Kizu-gawa River — where the station sits — is industrial in character.

The Nishinari-ku article describes the ward's westernmost edge along the Kizu-gawa River (where the station stands) as an industrial belt, contrasted with the eastern Tenjinno-mori and Shōten-shita districts that were developed as Tenga-jaya quiet residential land in the late Meiji period.