Namba (Nankai)

Known weekday departures: 543/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 501/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 4:56 / 24:10 (00:10 next day)

Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (36)

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 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• Nankai Main Line: Imaimiyaebisu

Namba Station opened on 29 December 1885 as the terminus of the Hankai Railway, the first private-railway station building in Japan, in present-day Chūō Ward, Ōsaka. The first station building was destroyed by fire in February 1888 and rebuilt in September of the same year. The operator was merged into Nankai Railway in October 1898, and the fourth-generation station building — the Corinthian-styled Nankai Building, designed by the architect Misao Kuno and housing the Takashimaya Osaka department store — was completed on 9 July 1932. The line was raised onto an elevated alignment as far as Tengachaya in November 1937, and the quadrupling of that elevated section was completed in September 1938, leaving a comb-shaped terminal of nine platforms and eight tracks. After three phases of rebuilding between 1972 and 1980 the station took its present form, and in June 1994, ahead of Kansai Airport's opening, the alighting platform of platform 8 was redesignated platform 9 and dedicated to the Rapi:t airport limited express.

The 64th and final verse of the 1900 Tetsudō Shōka — the great popular railway song that opened at Shinbashi — uses Namba Station as its closing destination.