History
Sakuranomiya Station opened on 27 April 1898 on the first-generation Osaka Railway's Kyōbashi-to-Tenma section, the route that would later become the Osaka Loop Line. From 1901 to 1913 it was a junction for the short Sakuranomiya Line via Amijima Station, before that branch was abandoned and the remaining track folded into the Katamachi Line. Freight handling ended on 15 March 1929 and baggage handling on 1 July 1964. The line was renamed the Osaka Loop Line on 25 April 1961, and JR West took over on 1 April 1987. Automatic gates were installed on 11 October 1997, ICOCA service began on 1 November 2003, and a departure jingle (Ai Otsuka's "Sakuranbo") was introduced on 22 March 2015. Station number JR-O09 was assigned in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's namesake is the local Sakuranomiya shrine, whose formal written name is 櫻宮; the riverbank cherry trees and the nearby Mint Bureau's spring "cherry-blossom passage" draw heavy crowds every year.