Station

Shinsaibashi

心斎橋

Shinsaibashi
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Shinsaibashi Station opened on 20 May 1933 as the southern terminus of the Osaka Municipal Subway's Midosuji Line (then running from a provisional Umeda terminal). It became an intermediate stop on 30 October 1935 when the Midosuji Line was extended to Namba. The Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line reached the station on 11 December 1996, was simultaneously renamed the Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line, and gained an inside-fare-zone link to Yotsubashi Station on the Yotsubashi Line. Platform-edge doors entered service on the Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi platform in September 2010 and on the Midosuji platform on 1 March 2015. The station passed to Osaka Metro on 1 April 2018, and Midosuji platform renovations were completed on 13 April 2023.

Notes

In 2008 the Midosuji Line's vaulted underground stations, including Shinsaibashi, were named civil-engineering heritage by the Japan Society of Civil Engineers; the station was also chosen for the first "100 Stations of Kinki" list.

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