Sakai

Known weekday departures: 448/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 391/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:11 / 24:42 (00:42 next day)

Busiest hour (known departures): 8:00–9:00 (32)

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: Shichido ⇄ Minato

Sakai Station opened on 15 May 1888 as the terminus of an extension of the Hankai Railway, in present-day Sakai City, Osaka, originally slightly north of the present site near the old Sakai port. The opening name was sometimes rendered as Azumabashi after a nearby crossroads. Joint use with Nankai Railway began on 1 October 1897, and Nankai took sole control the following year by buying out the Hankai Railway. After the opening of Ryūjin Station in 1912 the station fell out of favour for express services and was eventually demoted to a freight-only role following heavy damage in the 1945 air raid. In 1955 it was merged with Ryūjin Station into a single Sakai Station at a relocated site and resumed passenger service, and in May 1985 the present elevated station was completed slightly south of the original 1888 site near the Azumabashi intersection.

The 60th verse of the 1900 Tetsudō Shōka, in its fifth collection (Kansai–Sangū–Nankai), sings of the station and its shore scenery.