History
Sakuragawa Station opened on 16 April 1969 as the terminus of Osaka Municipal Subway Line 5 (the present-day Sennichimae Line) when service began between Noda-Hanshin and Sakuragawa. On 11 March 1970 the line was extended east to Tanimachi 9-chōme and then connected through to Shin-Fukae, making Sakuragawa a through-station. The Hanshin Namba Line opened on 20 March 2009 with a Hanshin Electric Railway station at the same site, designed for cross-running with Kintetsu trains: rolling-stock signalling, train control, and crew changes between Hanshin and Kintetsu all take place here. Platform-edge doors were activated on the Sennichimae platforms on 25 October 2014; both stations now bear station numbers S15 (Metro) and HS 42 (Hanshin).
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Even though Hanshin and Kintetsu trains run through to each other via Sakuragawa, on the stretch between here and Ōsaka Namba the service is treated as Hanshin-operated commercially but Kintetsu-operated for signalling and dispatch — including a dead section in the catenary west of the station.