History
Tsukaguchi Station opened on 16 July 1920 — the same day its operator, the Hanshin Express Electric Railway (today's Hankyu Railway), inaugurated the Kobe Main Line and Itami Line — in Tsukaguchi-Honmachi 1-chōme, Amagasaki, Hyōgo. It serves as the interchange between the Kobe Main Line and the Itami Line, of which it is the starting point. Automated ticket gates entered service on 15 September 1973. The station was added to the rapid limited-express stop list on 14 December 1987 and to the commuter limited-express/commuter express stops on 12 June 1995. Station numbering (HK-06) was introduced on 21 December 2013. Ticket-office sales of commuter passes ended on 30 November 2021. With the 17 December 2022 timetable revision the rapid limited-express service was retired and Tsukaguchi became a stop for the newly created semi-limited-express; with the 22 February 2025 revision the commuter express service was retired and the newly introduced rapid trains do not stop here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Between 1968 and 1991 the station had a "commute-only exit" on the tracks-2-and-3 platform restricted to staff of the nearby Mitsubishi Electric Itami Works: passengers needed both a commuter pass and a visible Mitsubishi Electric company badge to use it. It was closed when the Fair-Ride system was introduced in 1991. Tsukaguchi is also the only branch-junction station on the whole Hankyu network where no faster trains stop during the daytime — only locals and limited expresses (which pass through) operate then.