History
Higashi-Yodogawa Station opened on 1 April 1940 on the Tōkaidō Main Line in what is now Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, today operated by JR West as part of the JR Kyoto Line. When the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and Shin-Ōsaka Station opened in 1964, planners initially proposed closing Higashi-Yodogawa because the new terminus stood just 0.7 km away in a then-rural area, but local opposition kept the station in operation. That gap remains the shortest between any two stations on the JR Kyoto Line. The original station was demolished and replaced by a new building in 2019, and several adjacent grade crossings were closed at the same time to ease chronic traffic backups. Station numbering as JR-A45 followed in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The 0.7 km gap between Higashi-Yodogawa and Shin-Ōsaka is closely followed nationally by the 0.8 km Tokyo–Yūrakuchō pair on the Yamanote and Keihin-Tōhoku lines and by Sannomiya–Motomachi on the JR Kobe Line.