History
Sugimotochō Station opened on 18 July 1929 as a stop on the Hanwa Electric Railway between Hanwa-Tennōji and Izumi-Fuchū, in Sumiyoshi Ward, Ōsaka. It was upgraded from a stop to a full station on 23 January 1933 and acquired additional sidings in 1939. Following the absorption into Nankai Railway in December 1940 and then the wartime nationalisation of 1 May 1944 the station became part of the state-owned Hanwa Line. The Kansai Main Line freight branch from Yao to Sugimotochō opened on 1 September 1952 and was finally abandoned on 31 March 2009. The station passed to JR West on 1 April 1987, automated gates entered service in 1998, ICOCA in November 2003, and an east entrance opened on 11 March 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The east entrance was campaigned for over decades by local residents and Osaka City University faculty, because the original east-side gate built at opening had been closed after the occupation authorities requisitioned the campus immediately after the Pacific War.