History
Shukuin Station (HN23) is a Hankai Tramway Hankai Line tram stop in Sakai-ku, Sakai, on Phoenix-dōri (National Route 26). It opened on 5 March 1912 as part of the southward extension of the original Hankai Electric Tramway from Ichinochō (today Daishōji) toward Shōrinjibashi (today Goryōmae). The Ōhama branch line opened from here to the Sakai aquarium on 1 April 1912 but went out of service after the August 1945 firebombing of Sakai and was officially suspended on 3 March 1949 and abolished in 1980. Operator changes followed the rest of the Hankai network. In 2015–2016 the stop was rebuilt with new platforms across the intersection and a station-roof modelled on the Ōhama Park 'Shio-yu' bathhouse to which the line once led.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
When Shukuin was rebuilt in 2015–2016 the new station roof was deliberately modelled on the Ōhama Park 'Shio-yu' bathhouse — the southern destination of the now-vanished Ōhama branch line that diverged at this stop in 1912 and ran for 33 years until the August 1945 firebombing of Sakai.