History
Shukugawa Station opened on 16 July 1920 with the inauguration of the Hanshin Express Railway's Kobe Main Line. The Hankyu Kōyō branch joined on 1 October 1924, making it a junction. Successive mergers placed the station under Keihanshin Express Railway in 1943 and the current Hankyu Corporation in 1973. The 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake levelled the five-storey "Shukugawa Hankyu Building" on the south side, with the Kōyō Line back in service on 1 March, services east to Okamoto on 7 April and the full Kobe Line by 12 June. Lifts and a renovated public toilet entered service in March 2003, all limited expresses began calling on 28 October 2006, and station number HK-09 was applied on 21 December 2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Five minutes' walk up the hill is St Therese's Cathedral of the Catholic Shukugawa Parish, the former cathedral of the Osaka Archdiocese and the church where novelist Shūsaku Endō was baptised.