History
Toyokawa Station opened on 19 March 2007 in Toyokawa 4-chōme, Ibaraki, Osaka, as a station on the Osaka Monorail Saito Line, with station number 53. The name had been decided on 22 April 2005. Platform-edge doors entered service on 22 October 2022. The station was developed integrally with the Shimizu elevated bridge over the Shimizu intersection — although the bridge itself was not completed until July 2011 — and a southward-bound lane runs directly beneath the station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although written with the same characters as the well-known Toyokawa Station in Aichi (豊川駅), Osaka's station has a distinct Japanese pronunciation — the accent in announcements falls on the "to" of "toyokawa", matching the older Hankyu Bus convention rather than the Aichi station's pronunciation. The character Madoka Toyokawa in the Tetsudō Musume franchise takes her name from this station and topped the franchise's 20th-anniversary character election with 10,077 votes (held 27 January – 28 February 2025).