History
Temma Station opened on 17 October 1895 as a general station of the Osaka Railway (first incarnation), on the section that today forms the eastern half of the Osaka Loop Line, set up at the same time as Kyōbashi Station. On 6 June 1900 the Kansai Railway took over the Osaka Railway's line and the station, and on 1 October 1907 the Kansai Railway was nationalised. The track-name decree of 12 October 1909 placed the station on the Jōtō Line. Freight handling ended on 15 March 1929, the line was elevated in 1933, and on 25 April 1961 the Jōtō Line was absorbed into the Osaka Loop Line. The current Platform 1 was added in 1967. Parcel handling ended on 3 March 1986. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West. Automatic ticket gates were installed on 18 October 1997, the ICOCA IC card came into service on 1 November 2003, and from the 15 March 2008 timetable revision all Kankū Kaisoku and Kishūji Kaisoku rapid services began stopping here. The Osaka Loop / Yamatoji Line operations management system was introduced on 4 October 2009; on 22 March 2015 a departure melody — aiko's song "Hanabi" — was adopted, and station numbering was introduced on 17 March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Since 22 March 2015 the station has used aiko's song "Hanabi" as its departure melody, part of the "Osaka Loop Line Renovation Project"; the choice references the Tenjin Festival held each summer at the nearby Osaka Tenmangū Shrine — Aiko herself is from Osaka, and the station's symbol flower is the plum blossom (ume), the emblem flower of the shrine.