is the name of two adjacent

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

s located in

Kita-ku, Sakai is a ward of the city of Sakai in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The ward has an area of 15.58 km² and a population of 154,846. The population density is 9,945 per square kilometer.

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. The above ground station is an interchange station operated jointly by the private

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 ...

and the

Semboku Rapid Railway The is a railway line in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator . The line connects Izumi-Chūō Station and Nakamozu Station, with through operations to and from the Nankai Kōya Line up to Namba Station in sout ...

, and the underground station is operated by the

Osaka Metro The is a major rapid transit system in the Osaka Metropolitan Area of Japan, operated by the Osaka Metro Company, Ltd. It serves the city of Osaka and the adjacent municipalities of Higashiosaka, Kadoma, Moriguchi, Sakai, Suita, and Yao. O ...

. The name of the station is difficult to read in ''

kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...

''. The subway station shows the name in ''

hiragana is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" originally as contrast ...

'' (なかもず) for information, but uses ''kanji'' for the official station name. The Semboku Rapid Railway Line uses both ''kanji'' and ''hiragana'' (中もず) on the destination signs at the stations and on the destination displays on the trains.

Lines

Nakamozu Station is served by the

Nankai 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 s ...

, and is 14.1 kilometers from the

terminus Terminus may refer to: * Bus terminus, a bus station serving as an end destination * Terminal train station or terminus, a railway station serving as an end destination Geography *Terminus, the unofficial original name of Atlanta, Georgia, United ...

of the line at and 13.4 kilometers from . It is also the terminus of the 14.3 kilometer Semboku Rapid Railway Line to and the terminus of the 24.5 kilometer Midōsuji Line to

Layout

Nankai Railway Koya Line, Semboku Rapid Railway

The above-ground Nakamozu Station has two

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 ...

s serving four tracks, with an elevated station building. The outer tracks are used for the Kōya Line and the inner ones are for Semboku. A reversing track for Semboku is located in the west of the platforms and between 2 tracks for the Kōya Line.

Platforms

Osaka Metro Midosuji Line

The Osaka Municipal Subway station has an underground island platform serving two tracks. It is the southernmost station on the Osaka subway system.

Platform

Adjacent stations

History

Nakamozu Station opened on October 10, 1912. The Semboku Rapid Railway Line opened on April 1, 1971 and the Osaka Municipal Subway Midosuji Line on April 18, 1987. The facilities of the Midosuji Line were inherited by

after the privatization of the

Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau (大阪市交通局, ''Ōsaka-shi Kōtsū-kyoku'') was the public department of transportation of the city of Osaka, Japan that existed from 1903 to 2018. It operated the municipal subway lines, the New Tram, a ...

on 1 April 2018.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the Nankai portion of the station was used by an average of 24,442 passengers daily, the Senboku portion of the station by 39,021 passengers daily and the Osaka Metro by 76,151 passengers daily..

Surrounding area

* Sakai Chamber of Commerce * Osaka Prefecture University Nakamozu Campus

References

External links

Nakamozu Station
from Nankai Electric Railway website
Nakamozu Station
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