Tsuruhashi

Known weekday departures: 1,081/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 1,068/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:55 / 24:19 (00:19 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 18:00–19:00 (77)

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).

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Kintetsu Osaka Line, Osaka Loop Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Osaka Metro Sennichimae Line: no timetable data

• Kintetsu Osaka Line: Osaka Uehommachi ⇄ Imazato (Kintetsu)
• Osaka Loop Line: Tamatsukuri ⇄ Momodani

Tsuruhashi Station first opened on 30 April 1914 as part of the Osaka Electric Tramway's Nara Line. It was relocated 0.3 km west, towards Ōsaka-Uehommachi, in August 1932 in preparation for the Ministry of Railways station that opened above it on 21 September 1932 on the Jōtō Line (later the Osaka Loop Line); together they formed a major interchange. The lower station passed to Kinki Nippon Railway in the company merger of 1 June 1944, and the elevated national-railway station became a JR West station at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. A comprehensive rebuild, begun in October 1967 and completed on 26 March 1970, lengthened and widened the Kintetsu platforms and enlarged the national railway's concourse about fivefold, to some 3,000 m², to handle around 350,000 passengers a day. A Sennichimae Line station of the Osaka Municipal Subway (today's Osaka Metro) opened beneath on 25 July 1969, completing the present three-operator interchange.

The streets and underpasses immediately around the station make up one of Japan's best-known Korean districts: Tsuruhashi and Ikuno are home to a large Zainichi Korean community, with bulgogi restaurants, kimchi vendors, and stalls of Korean wedding dresses crowding the area under the elevated tracks.