History
Shiomibashi Station opened on 3 September 1900 as Dōtonbori Station, the terminus of the Kōya Railway's extension from Daishōji (today's Sakai-Higashi), in present-day Naniwa-ku, Osaka. It was renamed Shiomibashi on 1 January 1901 and passed through Kōya-Tozan Railway (1907), Osaka Kōya Railway (1915), Nankai Railway (1922), Kintetsu (1944), and finally to Nankai Electric Railway on 1 June 1947. War damage from the 17 March 1945 Osaka air raid was repaired by 1949, and the present station building was completed on 16 November 1956. Although nominally the start of the Kōya Line, since the 1985 city grade-separation project at Kishinosato severed the through-track, service runs only between here and Kishinosato-Tamade.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Shiomibashi is the formal starting point of the Kōya Line — yet because of the 1985 elevation works at Kishinosato, no trains from here run further south on the Kōya Line itself; service is confined to the short Shiomibashi-line branch.