History
Sekime Station opened on 14 October 1931, when the Keihan Main Line segment between Gamō (now Kyōbashi) and Moriguchi (now Moriguchi-shi) was converted to a dedicated railway track. The line was quadruple-tracked on 29 December 1933. On 27 April 1939 a fire destroyed train set 1105F of the 1000 series (three cars) on the station premises. Through wartime corporate consolidation the station became part of Keihanshin Kyūkō Electric Railway (now Hankyū) on 1 October 1943, and reverted to Keihan Electric Railway on 1 December 1949 when the companies were separated. The platforms were extended for eight-car trains in September 1991; an elevator and accessible toilet on the Kyoto-bound platform began service in April 1999, with an Osaka-bound elevator following on 24 December 1999. On 24 December 2006 the station became a connection point with Sekime-Seiiku Station on the new Osaka Municipal Subway Imazatosuji Line. A train-approach indicator was installed on the platforms in April 2009, and an emergency-alert device on 24 March 2014. A real-time passenger information display went into service on 15 March 2016, and a toilet renovation, including a powder corner on the women's side and Western-style stalls throughout, was completed on 29 March 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although the Osaka Metro Imazatosuji Line's Sekime-Seiiku Station is treated as a transfer connection with Sekime, the adjacent Sekime-Takadono Station on the Tanimachi Line lies only about 300 metres south and is explicitly not a transfer connection. The shrine Susanoo-no-Mikoto Shrine (Sekime Shrine) nearby is traditionally said to have been founded when Toyotomi Hideyoshi enshrined Bishamonten and Susanoo here, this site lying in the unlucky northeastern "demon-gate" direction from Osaka Castle during its construction.