History
Awaji Station opened on 1 April 1921 with the Kitaōsaka Electric Railway's Jūsō–Toyotsu section. Through a series of corporate moves it became a Shin-Keihan Railway station on 1 April 1923, a Keihan Electric Railway station on 15 September 1930, and, with the 1 October 1943 wartime merger, a station of Keihanshin Kyūkō Electric Railway (today's Hankyu Railway). The 1 December 1949 corporate split kept Awaji within Hankyu, where the line-naming reform of 18 February 1959 placed the Awaji–Tenjinbashi (now Tenjinbashisuji-rokuchōme) section onto the Senri Line and the former Jūsō Line section onto the Kyoto Main Line. Mutual through-running with the Osaka Municipal Subway Sakaisuji Line began on 6 December 1969. Awaji became a tokkyū stop on 17 March 2007, and the elevation works that will eliminate the present at-grade level crossing of the Kyoto and Senri lines were started in September 2008.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Awaji is the rare Hankyu station where the male announcer (Mitsuo Katayama) handles outside main-line tracks (Tracks 2 and 5) while the female announcer (Yumi Maruko) handles inside passing tracks (Tracks 3 and 4) — the opposite of the line-wide assignment, because the platform is narrow and trains often arrive on both sides simultaneously. The connecting elevation project, originally targeted for completion in 2013, is now expected to finish around FY2031 owing to land-acquisition delays and pandemic-era schedule pressure, with the budget overrun reaching roughly ¥69 billion as of 2021.