History
Rakusaiguchi Station opened on 16 March 2003 on the Hankyu Kyoto Line, the first new Hankyu station in the thirty years since Yamada on the Senri Line had opened in 1973. It serves the rapidly developing area between Katsura and Mukō; population in some neighbouring districts had grown tenfold by 2022. Initially built as a simple at-grade station, it was rebuilt as part of a grade-separation project, with the inbound platform elevated on 26 October 2013 and the outbound platform on 5 March 2016. The station number HK-80 was introduced on 21 December 2013. A shopping complex named TauT Hankyu Rakusaiguchi opened beneath the elevated tracks in three phases between 2018 and 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1946 station of Mozume, which stood between Higashi-Mukō and Katsura at almost the same location to serve a wartime munitions factory, was abolished after just two years; Rakusaiguchi is effectively the second station on this site, reopened more than half a century later.