History
Tannowa Station opened on 1906-08-15 as a simple stop on the Nankai Railway in what is now Misaki, Sennan District, Osaka Prefecture, and was elevated to a regular station in 1910. Although the Nankai line had been extended past the location in 1898, the station itself was prompted by a 1903 essay on Tannowa's scenery published in the Osaka Asahi Shimbun. The Nankai Railway opened Tannowa Yūen amusement gardens in 1911 and a Tannowa-Sumoto sea route in 1912; both functions were later eclipsed by Misaki-Kōen and the Fukai port. The station passed to Kintetsu in 1944 and back to the present Nankai Electric Railway in 1947, with station numbering NK40 introduced on 2012-04-01. The 1925 European-style wooden station building still stands alongside the inbound platform.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Local lore credits the 1906 establishment of Tannowa Station to a 1903 newspaper essay by Tensui Nishimura praising the area's coastal scenery in the Osaka Asahi Shimbun.