History
Chibune Station is an elevated four-track Hanshin Main Line station with passing loops in Tsukuda 2-chōme, Nishiyodogawa-ku, Osaka, with station number HS 06. It opened on 5 January 1921, formed by consolidating two earlier 1905 stations — Tsukuda and Ōwada — and was elevated on 10 June 1978. The station is the westernmost (Osaka-Prefecture-side) station on the Hanshin Main Line, and its 1.5 km gap to the next Osaka station, Himejima, is the longest interstation distance on the Hanshin Main Line. The host district, Nishiyodogawa-ku, is one of the 24 wards of Osaka City and sits on land built up by Yodo-River sediments; place names such as Mishima, Himejima, and Goheijima still recall the area's former existence as a cluster of islands in the river delta known as Nanbaya-soshima.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The Chibune article notes that the station sits on Tsukuda, the sandbar in the Kanzaki River from which Edo-era migrants departed for what is now Tsukuda in Chūō-ku, Tokyo — the original of the better-known Tokyo Tsukuda neighbourhood.