History
Tonda Station opened on 16 January 1928 as Tondamachi Station, on the Shin-Keihan Railway between Awaji and Takatsukimachi (now Takatsuki-shi). It became part of the Keihan Electric Railway in 1930 and of the merged Keihanshin Kyūkō Electric Railway (today's Hankyu) in 1943. The line was renamed the Kyoto Line in 1949, and the station took its present name on 1 July 1957 when Tonda Town was absorbed into the city of Takatsuki. The underground station building was completed on 20 December 1981. An upbound passing track was added in 1982 as a stopgap during elevation works at Takatsuki-shi Station; it remains in place but was withdrawn from regular use again in December 2022. Hankyu's system-wide station-numbering scheme designated this stop HK-71 on 21 December 2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Tonda's upbound passing track, originally a stopgap during Takatsuki-shi Station's elevation works in the early 1980s, has remained in place ever since — making this and Kobe Line's Rokkō the only Hankyu stations with such a track.