History
Tōbu-shijō-mae Station opened on 11 November 1989 on the JR West Kansai Main Line (Yamatoji Line) between Hirano and Tennōji, in Higashisumiyoshi Ward, Ōsaka. The station serves the eastern side of the Imazatosuji avenue, with a former first-generation Kudara passenger station to the west having closed in 1963 and the present Kudara freight terminal opening east of the avenue the same year; the passenger station was prompted by residents' lobbying. Automated gates entered service on 11 July 1998, ICOCA on 1 November 2003, the Osaka Loop and Yamatoji operations control system on 4 October 2009, and the Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket office closed on 8 March 2015. Elevators and an east entrance opened on 9 March 2019, and station operations were contracted out from 1 September 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The first train ever to call at the station did so at 11 minutes past 11 on 11 November 1989, a sequence of ones that was deliberately chosen for the opening.