History
Sawanocho Station opened on 15 February 1942 as a station on Nankai Railway's Koya Line between Sumiyoshi-Higashi and Abikomae. Through the wartime industry reorganisation it became a Kinki Nippon Railway station on 1 June 1944 and then a Nankai Electric Railway station on 1 June 1947 when the line was transferred to the newly formed operator. A fire on 5 May 2007 destroyed part of the station building, after which the structure was rebuilt. Station numbering NK53 was introduced on 1 April 2012. The station has two side platforms each with its own ticket gate; in-station crossover between platforms is not possible, and the gates are unstaffed, with intercom contact to staff at Sumiyoshi-Higashi Station available for assistance.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Both ends of each platform are bracketed by level crossings, so the usable length is exactly six cars — any longer train would block the crossings.