History
Komagawa-Nakano Station opened on 27 November 1980 when the Osaka Municipal Subway Tanimachi Line was extended between Tennōji and Yaominami. The working name during construction was Komagawa Station. A Lawson convenience store opened on the station's west-gate concourse on 28 March 2017. With the privatisation of the Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau on 1 April 2018, the station passed to Osaka Metro. An east gate, IC-card-only and stairs-only, was added on 1 April 2019 — at which point the original gate was renamed the west gate. Escalators were renovated between 28 September and 7 December 2020. Platform screen doors are scheduled to enter service on 16 January 2026.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station name was chosen because the new subway station was located on the site between the former Nankai Hirano Line stops Komagawa-chō and Nakano — combining the two now-defunct tram-stop names. The station is unusual for a subway station in that both ticket gates and the concourse are above ground rather than underground: the station building is two storeys above ground level and stands entirely within the elevated structure of the Hanshin Expressway Route 14, with the Kintetsu Minami-Osaka Line crossing the west gate area on its own elevated viaduct.