History
Handai-byōin-mae Station opened on 1 October 1998 as the original terminus of the Saito Line (then the International Cultural Park City Monorail Line), built at the request of Osaka University and the Osaka University Hospital. The line ran the short distance from Banpaku-Kinen-Kōen to Handai-byōin-mae as a first phase, serving the campus before the rest of the Saito corridor was developed. The line was extended west to Saito-Nishi on 19 March 2007, turning the station into an intermediate stop. A turnback crossover south of the platforms — a relic of its terminus days — still allows trains to reverse here, and platform screen doors were activated on 6 November 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station sits at the Suita–Ibaraki city border: the platforms are in Ibaraki, but the Osaka University campus and hospital just west of the station are in Suita.