History
Kire-Uriwari Station (T33) opened on 27 November 1980 when the Osaka Metro Tanimachi Line was extended from Tennoji to Yaominami. PiTaPa contactless ticketing began on 1 February 2005, and the station was transferred to Osaka Metro (Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau privatisation) on 1 April 2018. Platform-edge doors entered service on 17 February 2026. The underground station has a single island platform serving two tracks, with a Y-shaped turn-back siding on the Yaominami side that is used for some peak-hour terminations. If the long-planned Osaka Metro Line 9 is built as envisioned, Kire-Uriwari would become its eastern terminus and an interchange station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The name was the result of a stalemate between two villages: the planning-phase name "Kire" was opposed by Uriwari residents because the platform straddles the historical Settsu-Kawachi province boundary, so both names were combined into a single station name now famous as one of the hardest to read on the network.