Dobutsuen-mae

Known weekday departures: 185/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 168/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:30 / 23:41

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (16)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Osaka Metro Midosuji Line: no timetable data
• Osaka Municipal Subway Sakaisuji Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• 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 through the zoo entrance north-west of neighbouring Tennōji Station; Dōbutsuen-mae functions chiefly as an interchange between the Midōsuji and Sakaisuji Lines. The Midōsuji Line platform walls are decorated with animal illustrations.