Higashi-Aoyama

Weekday departures: 9/day · Sat & holiday departures: 7/day

First / last train (weekday): 8:10 / 22:14

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (2)

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

• Kintetsu Osaka Line: Nishi-Aoyama ⇄ Sakakibara-Onsenguchi

Higashi-Aoyama Station (D56) opened on 20 December 1930 as part of the Sangū Express Electric Railway between Abo (today Aoyamachō) and Sada (today Sakakibara-Onsenguchi). Successive mergers placed it under Kansai Express Railway in 1941 and Kintetsu in 1944. On 25 October 1971 a runaway limited express collided with another train inside the Sōdani Tunnel between this station and Sakakibara-Onsenguchi (the Kintetsu Ōsaka Line Train Collision), killing 25. On 23 November 1975 the section between Nishi-Aoyama and Kakiuchi-Higashi signal post was doubled-tracked and the station was moved 2.7 km east, with the old alignment — running through landslide-prone terrain — replaced by the new Aoyama Tunnel. The station was excluded from rapid-express stops on 20 March 2012.

Higashi-Aoyama and its neighbour Nishi-Aoyama are separated by 7.7 km, which Kintetsu records as the longest inter-station distance on any of its lines as of 17 March 2018; the gap is largely filled by the New Aoyama Tunnel built when the station was relocated in 1975.