History
Higashi-Umeda Station (station number T20) opened on 24 March 1967 as the northern terminus of the Osaka Municipal Subway Line 2 (now the Tanimachi Line) between Higashi-Umeda and Tanimachi 4-chōme. The original plan had been to share an island platform with the Midōsuji Line at Umeda Station, but a roof collapse during construction forced the alignment to be shifted east, giving the station its present location. The line was extended north to Miyakojima on 29 May 1974, making Higashi-Umeda an intermediate stop. Operation passed from the Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau to Osaka Metro on 1 April 2018, and platform screen doors entered service on 1 February 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The tunnel originally dug toward Umeda Station before construction was redirected sat unused for years and was eventually repurposed as the Tennōji-bound platform of the Midōsuji Line's Umeda Station.