History
Tsukamoto Station opened on 20 July 1934 east of the existing Utajima Signal Box on the Tōkaidō Main Line, in Yodogawa Ward, Osaka, when the Suita–Suma section was electrified for passenger service. The station building was destroyed by air raid on 15 June 1945 and rebuilt in May 1948. Track elevation works began in January 1967 and were completed in October 1969; the present third-generation building was finished on 1 October 1972. The station passed to JR West on 1 April 1987 and adopted both the JR Kobe Line and JR Takarazuka Line nicknames from March 1988. Operations were briefly suspended after the 1995 Hanshin Awaji earthquake before resuming on 18 January, automated gates entered service in October 1997, ICOCA on 1 November 2003, and ticket-window operations ended on 31 March 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The signal complex south-west of the station, where the Hokkata Freight Line splits off, forms a triangle with Amagasaki Station and Miyahara Yard whose entire interior is administratively part of Tsukamoto Station.