Funao (Osaka)

History

Funao tram stop opened on 1 April 1912 with the Hankai Electric Tramway. It passed to Nankai Railway through a 21 June 1915 merger, then to Kintetsu on 1 June 1944 through a wartime consolidation, back to Nankai Electric Railway on 1 June 1947, and finally to the reconstituted Hankai Tramway on 1 December 1980.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.

Notes

Funao sits on a dedicated right-of-way and has staggered single platforms set on either side of a level crossing (a so-called chidori arrangement). Until 1944 a further stop called Kaidō-bata stood between Funao and Hamadera-Ekimae and acted as a transfer point with the Hankai Electric Railway (later the Osaka City Tram Hankai Line).