History
Deto Station (T34) opened on 27 November 1980 with the Osaka Metro Tanimachi Line extension from Tennoji to Yaominami. The planning-phase name was Nagayoshi Station, but to avoid confusion with the adjacent Nagahara Station and because the area "Nagayoshi-Deto" lies just north of the station, Deto was adopted instead. The station passed to Osaka Metro on 1 April 2018 when the Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau was privatised, and platform-edge doors entered service on 26 February 2026. A single underground island platform serves two tracks. Exit 2 connects directly to the Deto Bus Terminal, which actually predates the station, having opened in 1976.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Deto is the only Osaka Metro station — including New Tram stops — whose Japanese name renders in just two hiragana characters; the English-language romanisation "Deto" is also tied for the shortest at four letters, alongside Chuo Line's Kujo Station.