History
Shinsaibashi Station opened on 20 May 1933 as the southern terminus of the Osaka Municipal Subway's Midosuji Line (then running from a provisional Umeda terminal). It became an intermediate stop on 30 October 1935 when the Midosuji Line was extended to Namba. The Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line reached the station on 11 December 1996, was simultaneously renamed the Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line, and gained an inside-fare-zone link to Yotsubashi Station on the Yotsubashi Line. Platform-edge doors entered service on the Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi platform in September 2010 and on the Midosuji platform on 1 March 2015. The station passed to Osaka Metro on 1 April 2018, and Midosuji platform renovations were completed on 13 April 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In 2008 the Midosuji Line's vaulted underground stations, including Shinsaibashi, were named civil-engineering heritage by the Japan Society of Civil Engineers; the station was also chosen for the first "100 Stations of Kinki" list.