Kyobashi Station (京橋駅) is a railway station in the Kyōbashi district of Jōtō-ku and Miyakojima-ku, Osaka, Japan, jointly operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West), the private railway operator Keihan Railway, and the Osaka Metro.

Lines

Osaka Loop Line Gakkentoshi Line (Katamachi Line) JR Tōzai Line The Tōzai and Gakkentoshi Lines form a combined service line in practice.

JR West

, Kyobashi was the fourth-busiest station in the JR West network after Osaka Station, Kyoto Station and Tennoji Station.

Layout

Gakkentoshi Line (Katamachi Line) and JR Tōzai Line

There are an island platform and a side platform with two tracks at ground level.

Osaka Loop Line

There are two side platforms with two elevated tracks.

Adjacent stations

History

The station opened on 17 October 1895. During the bombing of Osaka on August 14, 1945, a one-ton bomb directly struck the Katamachi Line platform and killed 700 to 800 evacuees. Kyobashi was one of the last sites to be bombed in Japan during World War II, followed only by the bombing of Akita, later the same day. A memorial was erected on the site in 1947, and anniversary services have been held at the station every year since 1955. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR West. The JR Tozai Line opened in 1997, at which point Kyobashi became a terminal for both the Tozai Line and Katamachi Line. Station numbering was introduced on the JR West lines in March 2018 with the Osaka Loop Line being assigned station number JR-O08 and the Tozai Line being assigned station number JR-H41.

Keihan Railway

Kyobashi is the busiest station in the Keihan network. This station is the transfer station between the Keihan Line and the Nakanoshima Line. The connections are follows:

Layout

Two island platforms on the 4th level serve four tracks.

Adjacent stations

History

The Keihan terminal opened on 15 April 1910, originally named Gamō Station (蒲生駅). It was renamed Kyōbashi on 1 October 1949, and was rebuilt as an elevated station, completed on 15 April 1970.

Osaka Metro

The Osaka Metro Subway station opened on 20 March 1990 when the Tsurumi-Ryokuchi Line was extended between Kyobashi and Tsurumi-ryokuchi Station.

Layout

An island platform on the 3rd basement fenced with platform gates serves two tracks.

Surrounding area

Buses

Bus services are operated by Osaka City Bus and Kintetsu Bus.