History
Ōmiya Station (Hankyu Kyoto Line, station number HK-84) opened on 31 March 1931 as Keihan Kyōto Station when the Shinkeihan Line of Keihan Electric Railway was extended from Sai'in. It was renamed Kyōto Station on the merger with Keihanshin Kyūkō Dentetsu (later Hankyu) on 1 October 1943, then renamed Ōmiya on 17 June 1963 when the Kyoto Line was extended to Kawaramachi (now Kyōto-Kawaramachi). The current Ōmiya Hankyu building was completed on 28 March 1968. Door-cutting for eight-car trains was used from October 1972 until July 1986, when the platform was extended 60 m towards Umeda to accommodate ten-car trains. The Hankyu Electric Railway name became official on 1 April 1973. In 2000 the underground section between Ōmiya and Sai'in was designated a Civil Engineering Heritage of Japan (rank A) by the JSCE. Limited-express stops were withdrawn from daytime services on 24 March 2001. Station numbering took effect on 21 December 2013, the north ticket gate opened on 21 March 2014, and the commuter-pass office closed on 30 November 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The Ōmiya–Sai'in tunnel was Japan's first underground railway line in the Kansai region, and only the third in the country after the Miyagi Electric Railway's Sendai (now JR Senseki Line Sendai) and the Tokyo Underground Railway (now Tokyo Metro Ginza Line); the tunnel and station structures are designated a Civil Engineering Heritage of Japan (rank A).