History
Higashi-Hagoromo opened on 18 July 1929 as Hanwa-Hamadera, the terminus of a branch of the Hanwa Electric Railway. It became a station of the Nankai Yamate Line when Nankai absorbed Hanwa on 1 December 1940, was renamed Yamanote-Hagoromo on 1 August 1941, and took its present name on 1 May 1944 when wartime nationalisation transferred the line to the Ministry of Transport. The station was elevated on 31 August 1973, and on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West. A staffed Midori-no-Madoguchi opened in November 1992, automatic gates entered service on 27 May 1998, and ICOCA followed on 1 November 2003. On 24 December 2016 the southern arrival platform was closed for four-car upgrade work, the north platform was lengthened by one car on 17 March 2018, and on 24 August 2019 a connecting concourse to Nankai's Hagoromo Station, nicknamed Tennyo no Komichi (the Celestial Maidens' Path), was completed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the rest of the Hanwa Line was numbered from 2015 onward, the Hagoromo branch — including Higashi-Hagoromo Station — was excluded; even the Hanwa Line's orange route colour does not appear on signs here, and it is the only JR station inside Osaka Prefecture not connected to the line's traffic-management system.