History
Kaizuka Station (Osaka) opened on 1 October 1897 with the Nankai Railway's Sakai - Sano (now Izumisano) section. A second operator arrived when Mizuma Railway opened a freight branch from Kaizuka-Minami (between the present station and Kaizuka-Shiyakushomae, since abolished) into the station on 25 April 1933, with Mizuma passenger service following on 20 January 1934. The Nankai side passed to Kintetsu on 1 June 1944 and back to Nankai Electric Railway on 1 June 1947. Kaizuka was removed from limited-express stopping patterns on 1 October 1968. The Nankai station was rebuilt with an overhead concourse in 1990, separating ticket gates from the Mizuma side, and the northbound Nankai passing siding was completed in 1993. Nankai station numbering (NK26) was introduced on 1 April 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Kaizuka appears in verse 58 of the 1900 fifth volume of the Tetsudō Shōka ("Railway Song"): "Leaving Kaizuka behind, soon to Kishiwada Castle's ruins...". The Mizuma Line's zero-kilometre post still stands roughly 200 m towards Mizuma-Kannon at the site of the former Kaizuka-Minami (Kaizuka-Shiyakushomae) Station, never having been moved.