History
Ōwada Station opened on 4 October 1932 between Furukawabashi and Kayashima on the Keihan Main Line in what is now Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture. It passed to Keihanshin Kyūkō (today’s Hankyu) in 1943 and back to Keihan Electric Railway when the company was separated in 1949. A passing siding completed on 1 May 1952 turned the stop into an interchange and short-turn terminus during the 1960s, and a bridge-style station building was finished on 15 May 1963 — built over a site where, in April that year, three small bronze bells were unearthed and later registered as the Ōwada archaeological site. Between 1974 and 1978 the stop was rebuilt as a four-track elevated station; the Kadoma-shi–Kayashima quadruple-tracking opened on 16 March 1980, and barrier-free elevators and an ostomate-accessible toilet were added on 30 January 2009.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
During foundation work for the 1963 station rebuild, three small bronze bells were uncovered roughly 2 m underground — bell finds in lowland sites are rare, and a commemorative stone now stands in the Eru-Ōwada arcade beneath the elevated tracks.