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on the Osaka Metro Chūō Line (station number: C14) and the

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Hanshin Namba Line The is a railway line operated by the private railway operator Hanshin Electric Railway connecting Amagasaki Station in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, and Ōsaka Namba Station in Chuo-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. History The , the pre ...

(station number: HS 44) in Kujo Itchome, Nishi-ku,

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, Japan.

Layout

Osaka Metro Chuo Line

This elevated station is located above Chuo Odori Street and below the Hanshin Expressway Route 16 Osaka Port Line. 2

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s serving a track each are located on the third floor. Ticket gates are located in the east and the west on the second floor. The west gates became in use on March 20, 2009, the day of the opening of the Hanhsin Namba Line. The gates were in use from the opening in 1964, but closed after the opening of the east gates until 2009.

Hanshin Railway Hanshin Namba Line

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serving 2 tracks is located on the 2nd level below the ground. 2 entrances are located. Entrance 1 is located along Chuo Odori Street and close to the west entrance of Kujo Station owned by Osaka Metro. Entrance 2 is located on the 1st floor of NTT West Building along Kujo Nakadori Route. When Hanshin Railway was planning to extend a railway line to Namba in the 1960s, 2 entrances were situated for the line, 1 was in Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation Building (present: NTT West Building) and the other was Sumikin Kosan Kujo Building (present: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Kosan Kujo Building). After 42 years, the former became in use for Hanshin Railway Kujo Station Entrance 2. The latter is no longer in use because it is connected to the paid area.

Surroundings

*Chuō Ōdōri *Hanshin Expressway Route 16 Osaka Port Line *

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*Osaka Kujo Post Office *Nine Mall Kujo (Buffa-Road; Buffaloes Road) *Kirara Kujo Shopping Street *Kujo Shin-ei-kai Shopping Street (Shin-chan Road) *Kujo Sennichi Street

Stations next to Kujo

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kujo Station (Osaka) Railway stations in Japan opened in 2009 Railway stations in Japan opened in 1964 Railway stations in Osaka Prefecture Stations of Hanshin Electric Railway Osaka Metro stations