History
Fuse Station opened on 30 April 1914 as Fukae Station (深江駅) on the Osaka Electric Tramway (Daiki). Renamed Ajiro (足代) in March 1922, it was moved about 200 m east on 31 October 1924 to accommodate the new Kokubu Line — predecessor of today's Osaka Line — and renamed Fuse in September 1925. A 1941 line-naming reform formally placed the Nara Line's origin at Fuse. Track elevation was carried out in two stages: the Osaka Line between October 1974 and August 1976, and the Nara Line between September 1975 and June 1977. The resulting four-level vertical station — Osaka-Line and Nara-Line island platforms stacked on the third and fourth floors above a Kintetsu department store — is exceptional within Japan.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1972–1977 elevation reordered the four parallel tracks from line-by-line (Nara north, Osaka south) into direction-by-direction running, which made cross-platform transfers possible at Tsuruhashi. Switchover took place over the night of 13–14 September 1975 and required around 700 workers to rewire signalling at 27 sites and rebuild 210 station signs.