History
Hamaderakōen Station opened on 1 October 1897 as Hamadera Station, an intermediate stop on the Nankai Electric Railway's main line in what is now Nishi-ku, Sakai. It was rebuilt and renamed to its present name on 20 August 1907, when architect Tatsuno Kingo designed a new wooden station building that survives today as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property. The station, numbered NK15, lies 14.8 km from the Namba terminus and offers an island platform serving Wakayama-bound trains plus a side platform for Namba-bound trains and turn-back service.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The 1907 wooden station building was designed by Tatsuno Kingo, the architect of Tokyo Station's Marunouchi facade, and is listed as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.