History
Minami-Tanabe Station opened on 18 July 1929 as a stop on the newly inaugurated Hanwa Electric Railway between Hanwa-Tennoji (today's Tennoji) and Izumi-Fuchu. It passed to Nankai Railway's Yamate Line on 1 December 1940 through merger, was nationalised on 1 May 1944 and promoted from halt to full station, becoming part of the JNR Hanwa Line. JR West inherited the station at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. Automatic gates entered service in 1998 and ICOCA was accepted from November 2003. Track elevation moved the up line onto its raised platform on 16 October 2004 and the down line on 21 May 2006; in the process the address shifted from Higashisumiyoshi-ku to Abeno-ku as the new viaduct crossed the ward boundary. Station numbering JR-R22 was introduced in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the elevated platforms opened, the train-approach melody for passing services was replaced with a new tune — but the change was unpopular and the original melody was later restored.