History
Temmabashi Station opened on 15 April 1910 as the Osaka-side terminus of the Keihan Electric Railway Main Line. A new station and freight handling were added on 10 July 1914. Through wartime corporate consolidation the station became part of Keihanshin Kyūkō Electric Railway on 1 October 1943, then reverted to Keihan Electric Railway on 1 December 1949 when the companies were separated. Freight handling ended on 25 June 1955. On 16 April 1963 the Keihan station was moved underground with the Yodoyabashi extension and became an intermediate station rather than a terminus, and the Keihan Temmabashi Underground Centre opened the same day. On 24 March 1967 an Osaka Municipal Subway Tanimachi Line station also opened here. The Keihan section between (former) Gamō Signal and Temmabashi was quadruple-tracked on 1 November 1970, automatic ticket gates were added on 17 May 1975, and the line was air-conditioned by 31 May 1996. To accommodate the Nakanoshima Line branching off here, the platform allocation was reorganised on 16 April 2006: the southern two tracks took over Yodoyabashi service, while the northern two tracks were used for terminus turnbacks until the Nakanoshima Line opened on 19 October 2008, after which they served Nakanoshima trains. On 1 April 2018, when the Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau was privatised, the Tanimachi Line station passed to Osaka Metro. Platform screen doors began service on the Tanimachi Line section on 13 December 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
From 1933 to 1945 a department store, Keihan Department Store Temmabashi Branch, occupied the station building, but the entire complex was lost in the air raids of June 1945 and rebuilt after the war. The post-1963 underground building hosted a Matsuzakaya department store until 5 May 2004; on its site, Keihan opened its own Keihan City Mall on 27 May 2005, anchored by tenants including the electronics retailer EDION. The platform-side stone marker reading "先覚志茲成" ("The aspirations of pioneers are realised here") was originally mounted above the entrance to the underground tunnel and was relocated to the platform when the OMM Building was completed.