History
Hanshin Noda Station (HS 03) opened on 12 April 1905 with the inauguration of the Hanshin Main Line. The Hanshin Kita-Osaka Tram Line opened on 19 August 1914. On 1 July 1927 Hanshin Kokudō Tram Railway's Nishi-Noda Station opened about 100 m west. On 1 April 1928 Hanshin Kokudō Tram Railway was absorbed into Hanshin Electric Railway as its Kokudō Line, and both Noda and Nishi-Noda became Hanshin stations; later, in the 1930s, Nishi-Noda was consolidated into Noda. The up-line was elevated on 21 July 1961, the down-line on 22 November 1961 - leaving only the Main Line on the viaduct while the tram lines, originally connected here, were severed. Elevated construction completed on 8 December 1961. The entire Hanshin tram network (Kokudō, Kita-Osaka, and Kōshien Lines) was abolished on 6 May 1975. The section limited express began stopping here on 20 March 2012, and station numbering (HS 03) was introduced on 1 April 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Noda is one of the rare cases of a railway's headquarters station where the operator's premier service does not stop - Hanshin Electric Railway's head office sits on the north side of the station, but the limited express and through limited express pass through. The station became the headquarters site in 1992 when the company moved from Umeda; a shopping centre also opened nearby in August 1992. The site of the headquarters and shops occupies the former turning loop and station of the abolished Kokudō and Kita-Osaka tram lines. Although there is a JR West Noda Station on the Osaka Loop Line in the same ward, it is about 500 m away and not a paired transfer - so this station is commonly called 'Hanshin Noda'. The nearest subway connection is the Osaka Metro Sennichimae Line's Noda-Hanshin Station (the only station on that line east of the JR West Noda that uses 'Tamagawa' instead). Just after the war, Hanshin and Kintetsu jointly applied to build a privately-financed line branching from Noda via Namba to Tsuruhashi, but Osaka City's 'municipal Monroe Doctrine' opposition blocked it; the present Sennichimae Line was Osaka's counter-plan, and Hanshin's Dempō Line and Kintetsu's Namba Line came from a redesign of the original scheme.