Sugimotocho

Weekday departures: 160/day · Sat & holiday departures: 160/day

First / last train (weekday): 0:21 / 24:07

Busiest hour: 9:00–10:00 (11)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• JR Hanwa Line: Abikocho ⇄ Asaka (Osaka)

Sugimotochō Station opened on 18 July 1929 as a stop on the Hanwa Electric Railway between Hanwa-Tennōji and Izumi-Fuchū, in Sumiyoshi Ward, Ōsaka. It was upgraded from a stop to a full station on 23 January 1933 and acquired additional sidings in 1939. Following the absorption into Nankai Railway in December 1940 and then the wartime nationalisation of 1 May 1944 the station became part of the state-owned Hanwa Line. The Kansai Main Line freight branch from Yao to Sugimotochō opened on 1 September 1952 and was finally abandoned on 31 March 2009. The station passed to JR West on 1 April 1987, automated gates entered service in 1998, ICOCA in November 2003, and an east entrance opened on 11 March 2012.

The east entrance was campaigned for over decades by local residents and Osaka City University faculty, because the original east-side gate built at opening had been closed after the occupation authorities requisitioned the campus immediately after the Pacific War.