History
Nakatsu Station opened on 24 September 1964 with the Umeda-Shin-Osaka extension of Line 1 (the Midōsuji Line). On 13 February 1989, the station's administrative ward changed from Ōyodo-ku to Kita-ku when Osaka City's wards were consolidated. With the privatisation of the Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau on 1 April 2018, the operator changed to Osaka Metro (Osaka City Subway and Light Rail). Movable platform doors entered service on 20 March 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although Hankyu Railway operates a station of the same name, the Hankyu Nakatsu is about 300 m away and the two are not paired transfers. In Osaka announcements, the name is pronounced with the high-low Keihan-style accent ('NA-katsu'). The station has a single 7-metre-wide island platform serving two tracks, sized for ten-car trains. Originally the plan was for a two-platform/three-track layout like Tennōji; instead Nakatsu has a Y-shaped turnback siding on the Minoo-Kayano side, used by about a quarter of morning- and evening-peak trains from Tennōji and about half of trains running after 23:00. Nakatsu lies just north of Hankyu Village, the cluster of Hankyu-Hanshin-Toho group facilities in Kita.