History
Dome-mae Station (planning name: Iwasakibashi) opened on 20 March 2009 when the Hanshin Namba Line was extended between Nishi-Kujō and Ōsaka-Namba. The earliest plans for the Hanshin Namba Line ran directly from Kujō to Sakuragawa with only those two new stations on the extension, but the completion of the Kyocera Dome Osaka (then Osaka Dome) made it necessary to add a station to serve the venue. The line was therefore moved closer to the Dome and Dome-mae Station was inserted, lengthening the extension by about 500 metres and shortening the Kujō–Dome-mae segment. Station numbering (HS 43) was introduced on 1 April 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
At a depth of about 30 metres, Dome-mae is the deepest station on the Hanshin network. The platform-level walls use roughly 160,000 bricks, evoking the gasworks that gave this area its early industrial identity — Osaka Gas was founded near here. Although the timetable shows 0.6 km between Dome-mae and the next station Kujō, the actual end-to-end distance between platform ends is only 0.3 km, the shortest such gap on the Hanshin network.