History
Abiko Station (M27) opened on 1 July 1960 as the southern terminus of Line 1 (today's Midōsuji Line) of the Osaka Municipal Subway, when the line was extended south from Nishitanabe. It remained a terminus until the Midōsuji Line was extended to Nakamozu on 18 April 1987, becoming an intermediate station. The original 1939 plan called for an elevated station with opposed platforms 3.6 m wide; the plan was changed to underground in October 1939 and the present layout has two opposed side platforms on basement level 1. Until 1987 the Abiko Depot stood alongside the station, jointly serving Midōsuji and Yotsubashi line cars; it was closed when Nakamozu Depot opened (the depot site is now a park, sports centre and Osaka Municipal Abiko-Minami Junior High School). On 1 April 2018 the municipal subway was corporatized as Osaka Metro, and the station received platform-edge doors on 24 July 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Although the station's official name is written in kanji as '我孫子', the station signs and platform indicators use the hiragana form 'あびこ' — not to distinguish it from JR East's Abiko Station in Chiba, but because the kanji is considered difficult to read; the same convention applies at neighbouring Midōsuji-Line stations like Nakamozu and Namba.