Tanimachi 9-chome

History

Tanimachi Kyūchōme Station opened on 17 December 1968 as a stop on the Osaka Municipal Subway Line 2 (the present-day Tanimachi Line). It became an interchange on 25 July 1969 when Line 5 (now the Sennichimae Line) opened as a stub from here to Imazato; the Lines 2 and 5 were named Tanimachi and Sennichimae respectively on 6 December that year. On 11 March 1970 the Sennichimae Line was extended west to Sakuragawa, completing the through-route to Noda-Hanshin. Platform-edge doors entered service on the Sennichimae platforms on 30 August 2014 and on the Tanimachi platforms on 15 March 2025. The station passed to Osaka Metro on 1 April 2018. It connects via underground passages to Kintetsu's Ōsaka-Uehommachi Station for the Nara, Namba and Osaka lines.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

Locals call the station "Tanikyū" (谷九) — a familiar nickname that has displaced the older "Uehommachi-roku" (Uē-roku) as the area's go-to name, after the subway opening shifted the area's transit centre of gravity from the Uehommachi tram stop to here.