Sakuragawa (Osaka · Hanshin)

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Sakuragawa Station opened on 16 April 1969 as the terminus of Osaka Municipal Subway Line 5 (the present-day Sennichimae Line) when service began between Noda-Hanshin and Sakuragawa. On 11 March 1970 the line was extended east to Tanimachi 9-chōme and then connected through to Shin-Fukae, making Sakuragawa a through-station. The Hanshin Namba Line opened on 20 March 2009 with a Hanshin Electric Railway station at the same site, designed for cross-running with Kintetsu trains: rolling-stock signalling, train control, and crew changes between Hanshin and Kintetsu all take place here. Platform-edge doors were activated on the Sennichimae platforms on 25 October 2014; both stations now bear station numbers S15 (Metro) and HS 42 (Hanshin).

Even though Hanshin and Kintetsu trains run through to each other via Sakuragawa, on the stretch between here and Ōsaka Namba the service is treated as Hanshin-operated commercially but Kintetsu-operated for signalling and dispatch — including a dead section in the catenary west of the station.