is a railway station in

Nishinari-ku is one of the 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It contains some shopping and entertainment areas, such as Tamade. It lies directly south of the Namba transport hub and extends further south toward Sumiyoshi Park. It is served by the Nankai Railway line ...

Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...

Osaka Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 () and has a geographic area of . Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture ...

, Japan, operated by the private railway operator

Nankai Electric Railway is a private railway in Japan, founded in 1884. The name ''Nankai'' (which means "South Sea") comes from the company's routes along the Nankaidō, the old highway that ran south from the old capital, Kyoto, along the sea coast. Nankai predates a ...

Lines

Kishinosato-Tamade Station is served by the

Nankai Main Line The is one of the two main railway lines of Japanese private railway company Nankai Electric Railway, together with Kōya Line. The route is from Namba Station in south downtown of Osaka to Wakayamashi Station in Wakayama via Sakai, Izumiōtsu ...

as well as the

Koya Line The is a railway line in Osaka Prefecture and Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, owned and operated by the Nankai Electric Railway, a private railway operator. It connects Osaka and Koyasan, the capital of the Japanese Buddhist sect Shingon, via the ...

, and has the station number "NK06".

Layout

The station is elevated and has five platforms serving five tracks in total. Two

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

s serve the Koya Line, and one side platform parallel to the Nankai Line serves the Koya Line (Shiomibashi Line). Two tracks of the Nankai Main Line are served by an

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

with a passing track for Namba outside of track 4.

Platforms

File:Kishinosato-Tamade Station 01.jpg, Tamade gate File:Kishinosato-Tamade-Station-Platform3-4.jpg, Platform of Nankai Main Line File:Kishinosato-Tamade-Station-Platform2-1.JPG, Platform of Kōya Line File:Kishinosato-Tamade-Station-Platform6.JPG, Platform of Shiomibashi Line

Adjacent stations

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History

Kishinosato-Tamade Station opened in April 1993 as a result of the merger of two former stations, namely Kishinosato Station and Tamagi Station.

References

External links

* Railway stations in Japan opened in 1900 Railway stations in Osaka Prefecture {{Osaka-railstation-stub