Suita (Hankyu)

Weekday departures: 268/day · Sat & holiday departures: 235/day

First / last train (weekday): 0:30 / 23:56

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (20)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Hankyū Senri Line: Toyotsu (Osaka) ⇄ Shimo-Shinjō

Suita Station opened on 9 August 1876 as a new stop on the Imperial Japanese Government Railways' Takatsuki–Osaka section, taking both passenger and freight traffic from day one. The Tōkaidō-line naming reform of 1 April 1895 made it part of the Tōkaidō Line (renamed Tōkaidō Main Line in 1909). The Hokkata Freight Line opened off Suita on 1 August 1918 towards what is now Amagasaki Station, and on 15 March 1929 the Katamachi Freight Sub-line (Jōtō Freight Line) was extended through Suita. From 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West with the privatisation of JNR. Freight operations at Suita itself ended on 1 February 1984, and on 8 October 2012 (Hokkata/Jōtō) and 16 March 2013 (Umeda Freight Line) the formal junction points of those freight branches were moved to the new Suita Freight Terminal Station, leaving Suita as a Tōkaidō Main Line passenger station only.

Despite serving the JR Kyoto Line at Suita City's main JR stop, the station is administratively the southernmost station of JR West's Kyoto Branch. Locals reflexively use "JR-Suita" and "Hankyu-Suita" to disambiguate from the Hankyu Senri Line Suita Station about 600 m away on a straight-line measure, and the parking-lot rotaries at Suita's central- and east-side exits feed only Hankyu Bus services.