History
Shin-Ōsaka Station opened on 1 October 1964 as the western terminus of the new Tōkaidō Shinkansen, timed to coincide with the Tokyo Olympics. It was built about three kilometres north of the existing Ōsaka Station because the Umeda district was already crowded with Hankyū's terminal and the Umeda freight yard, leaving no room for high-speed platforms; siting Shin-Ōsaka also avoided crossing the Yodogawa twice on the planned San'yō extension. The Osaka Municipal Subway Midōsuji Line station opened a week earlier on 24 September 1964. The San'yō Shinkansen began through service in 1972, and the JR West Osaka Higashi Line extended into the station with full service from 16 March 2019. JR Central operates the Shinkansen platforms and JR West the conventional-line platforms.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Under the pre-war "Bullet Train" plan abandoned in 1945, the nearby Higashi-Yodogawa Station was to be renamed "Shin-Ōsaka"; when the actual Shinkansen was eventually built on a different alignment, the name was reused at a new site 0.7 km away — which is why Higashi-Yodogawa and Shin-Ōsaka stations sit unusually close together.