History
Hoshigaoka Station opened on 1 November 1938 as a new station on the Shigi-Ikoma Electric Railway's Hirakata Line, between Hirakata Higashiguchi (today's Hirakatashi) and Murano, in Hoshigaoka 2-chōme, Hirakata, Osaka. The line was transferred to Katano Electric Railway on 1 May 1939 and to Keihanshin Express Electric Railway on 1 May 1945. Operations were suspended on 15 September 1945 to ease wartime transport disruption and resumed on 15 February 1946. With the corporate separation of 1 December 1949 the station passed to today's Keihan Electric Railway. Platforms were lengthened and the station building improved on 1 December 1968, and on 6 June 1971 the section Nakamiya–Murano was double-tracked, the station was converted to opposed side platforms, an underpass was newly built and the station building was upgraded. The west-side ticket gate, plus an accessible toilet and ramp on the Hirakatashi-bound platform, entered service on 31 March 2011 as part of barrier-free works.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Before the 2011 barrier-free works, wheelchair users wishing to board a Hirakatashi-bound train had to ask staff at the Kisaichi-side ticket gate; an attendant would then escort them across a public-road level crossing and onto a wheelchair-only ramp leading to the opposite platform.