is a railway station in Namba,

Naniwa Ward is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It has an area of 4.37 km², and a population of 51,567. General information Largely a residential area itself, Naniwa-ku is adjacent to and has in recent years blurred into the Namba district, whic ...

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 ...

, Japan, adjacent to

Namba Station is a name shared by two railway stations in the Namba district of Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. One is owned by Nankai Electric Railway, while the other is by the Osaka Metro. The names of both stations are written in ''hiragana'' on signage with ...

( Nankai Railway,

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) and

Ōsaka Namba Station is a railway station on the Kintetsu Namba Line and Hanshin Namba Line in the Namba district of Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is adjacent to Namba Station and JR Namba Station. Trains of the Nara Line depart from and arrive at the station. ...

( Kintetsu, Hanshin Railway) operated by the

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(JR West). JR Namba is the western terminus of the Kansai Main Line (

Yamatoji Line The is the common name of the western portion of the Kansai Main Line. The line is owned and operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West), and starts at Kamo Station in Kyoto Prefecture and ends at JR Namba Station in Naniwa-ku, Osaka. O ...

Layout

The station has two underground

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 o ...

s serving four tracks.

Platforms

JR-Nanba2.jpg, The ticket barriers JR-Namba Station sign.jpg, Station sign, January 2020

History

The station opened as on March 1, 1899. It was renamed JR Namba on September 4, 1994, in collaboration with the opening of

Kansai International Airport Kansai International Airport ( ja, 関西国際空港, Kansai Kokusai Kūkō) commonly known as is the primary international airport in the Greater Osaka Area of Japan and the closest international airport to the cities of Osaka, Kyoto, and ...

. New underground facilities opened on March 22, 1996, and replaced the former above-ground station.

Future plans

The tracks from the Kansai Main Line are expected to be extended north from this station by 2031 with the completion of the Naniwasuji Line. The new line is to be routed through central Osaka and will terminate at new underground platforms at

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Surrounding area

Osaka City Air Terminal Osaka City Air Terminal (OCAT) is a multi-purpose commercial complex in Minatomachi, Naniwa-ku, Osaka housing South Osaka's inter-city bus terminal and coach ferry services to Kansai International Airport, JR Namba station and six floors of sho ...

(OCAT) * Minatomachi River Place **

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* Sankei Shimbun Osaka Head Office

Bus stops

* Osaka City Air Terminal (OCAT) * JR Namba ekimae (

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)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jr Namba Station Railway stations in Osaka Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1889