History
Tennōji-Ekimae Station (HN01) is the northern terminus of the Hankai Tramway Uemachi Line, in Abeno-suji 1-chōme, Abeno-ku, Osaka. It first opened on 20 September 1900 as Kōen-Higashimon Station of Ōsaka Bashaki Tetsudō, between Tennōji and Higashi-Tengachaya. Successive corporate changes — Ōsaka Densha Tetsudō (March 1907), Naniwa Densha Kidō (October 1907), suspension for electrification (February 1908), absorption into Nankai Railway (December 1909), and resumption with electric service on 1 October 1910 — moved the line through several owners. In December 1921 the section north of here was bought by Osaka Municipal Tramway, making the stop the line's terminus; it was later renamed Tennōji-Ekimae. Ownership passed to Kinki Nippon Railway in June 1944, back to Nankai in June 1947, and to the present Hankai Tramway on 1 December 1980. The station was rebuilt at a new site on 3 December 2016.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The stop was originally called Kōen-Higashimon Station (公園東門駅, literally 'East Gate of the Park Station') when it opened in 1900, and was only renamed Tennōji-Ekimae sometime between 1921 and 1952.