History
Asaka Station opened on 3 September 1937 as Hanwa-Asakayama Stop on the Hanwa Electric Railway’s line through southern Osaka. It was renamed Yamate-Asakayama Stop on 1 August 1941, and adopted its present name Asaka on 1 May 1944. The station passed to Japanese National Railways and then to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Station numbering was introduced in March 2018, assigning Asaka the code JR-R27. Today it sits on the Hanwa Line 7.9 kilometres from the northern terminus at Tennōji with two opposed side platforms beneath an elevated station building.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station has carried three names in seven years: opening as Hanwa-Asakayama in 1937, becoming Yamate-Asakayama in 1941, and finally Asaka in 1944.