Osaka Umeda (Hankyu)

Known weekday departures: 784/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 668/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:00 / 24:10 (00:10 next day)

Busiest hour (known departures): 8:00–9:00 (58)

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).

• Hankyu Kobe Main Line: Nakatsu (Osaka · Hankyu)
• Hankyu Takarazuka Main Line: Nakatsu (Osaka · Hankyu)

Osaka-Umeda Station opened on 10 March 1910 as Umeda Station, built by the Minoo-Arima Electric Tramway, a Hankyu predecessor, on its new Umeda-Takarazuka line. After 1959, ridership grew sharply and platform extensions hit their limit against the adjoining Japanese National Railways (JNR) elevated line, so from 1966 to 1973 it was rebuilt, elevated, on its current site north of the JNR line. It was renamed Osaka-Umeda on 1 October 2019 to mark it as Osaka's hub. Today it is the terminus of Hankyu's Kobe, Takarazuka, and Kyoto main lines, with 10 platforms and 9 dead-end tracks — Japan's largest such layout, JR included — and connects directly to the Hankyu Umeda Main Store, built on founder Ichizō Kobayashi's terminal-department-store model.

Each of the station's three lines has its own departure chime: bamboo represents the Kyoto Line, an upscale, refined mood represents the Takarazuka Line, and the sea represents the Kobe Line.