History
Shibahara-handai-mae Station opened on 30 September 1994 as Shibahara Station, serving as the western terminus of the Osaka Monorail Main Line during a 7.9 km extension from Senri-Chūō. The terminus role was temporary: difficulties acquiring land near Hotarugaike delayed the extension to Itami Airport until 1 April 1997, after which Shibahara became a through station. On 1 October 2019 the name was changed to Shibahara-handai-mae to flag its proximity to Osaka University's Toyonaka campus ("Handai" being a popular short form of Ōsaka Daigaku), and platform screen doors entered service on 28 August 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The unused crossover west of the platforms is a leftover from the period when Shibahara was a temporary terminus during the three years before the Itami Airport extension opened.