History
Yodogawa Station opened on 12 April 1905 with the Hanshin Main Line, in Fukushima Ward, Ōsaka, on the south bank of the Yodogawa River — despite the name, it does not lie in Yodogawa Ward, which is on the north bank. A platform-centre elevator linking the concourse with the platforms was installed in March 2008, and station numbering was introduced on 1 April 2014. The elevated station has two opposed four-car platforms reached from a single ticket gate at street level; sections of the original Yodogawa bridge truss are displayed within the concourse as a decorative feature.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Unlike most stations on the Hanshin Main Line, where passenger numbers fell sharply after the JR Tōzai Line opened in 1997, Yodogawa has held its 1991 peak almost intact, falling by only about five percent in the decades since.