History
Hajinosato Station opened on 1 June 1924 as a station on the Osaka Railway (second incarnation). Through wartime corporate consolidation it became a Kansai Express Railway Tennōji Line station on 1 February 1943, and on 1 June 1944 — following the wartime merger between Kansai Express Railway and Nankai Railway — passed to Kintetsu as a station on the Minami-Osaka Line. Junkyū (semi-express) services began stopping here on 18 March 1965. On 15 March 1994 the platform was extended by one car to eight cars in length. The PiTaPa IC card came into service on 1 April 2007, and a new station building was put into service on 26 October 2008. The station became fully unstaffed on 10 November 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station name derives from the Haji clan, an ancient Kofun-period (3rd-7th century) noble family famous for producing haniwa funerary clay figures and overseeing imperial funerary rites; "Hajinosato" however is not a current place name and is used only as the name of this station and a nearby road intersection (which is itself written as 土師の里 rather than 土師ノ里). The station is in the immediate vicinity of the World Heritage Furuichi Kofun Group, including the burial mound traditionally attributed to Empress Nakahime (Naka-tsu-yama Kofun) and the mound traditionally attributed to Emperor Ingyō (Ichinoyama Kofun).