Station

Nishinakajima-Minamigata

西中島南方

Nishinakajima-Minamigata
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Nishinakajima-Minamigata Station opened on 24 September 1964 with the Osaka Municipal Subway's Midōsuji Line extension between Umeda and Shin-Ōsaka. With Osaka City's transit privatisation on 1 April 2018 it passed to Osaka Metro, and platform screen doors entered service on 23 January 2021. Carrying station number M14, it sits between Shin-Ōsaka and Nakatsu and is unique among the elevated Midōsuji Line stations in having opposed side platforms rather than an island platform — a result of the project being separated from the parallel Route 423 (Shin-Midōsuji) construction. The station also serves as an interchange with Hankyu's Minamigata Station on the Kyoto Main Line one block away.

Notes

Said to be the first station name in Osaka formed by combining two place-names, it joins the broader-area name "Nishinakajima" with the locality "Minamigata" — and notably reads the latter as "minamigata" (voiced) where Hankyu's Minamigata Station next door reads it as the unvoiced "minamikata".

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