Jūsō Station

Jūsō Station (十三駅, Jūsō eki^?) is a station of Hankyu Railway located in Jūsō, Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, Japan. The six-track trunk line from Umeda Station diverges into the three double tracks of the Kobe Line, the Kyoto Line and the Takarazuka Line at this station.

The station opened on March 10, 1910 as a stop of the Takarazuka Line. The Kobe and Kyoto Lines were later constructed.

The surrounding area of the station is an extensive shopping and entertainment district. However, a large number of the users of the station just transfer the trains here and do not exit the station. Several shops and restaurants for transferring passengers are located inside the station facility.

It is reported that there is a plan of an extension of Yotsubashi Line subway from Nishi-Umeda Station to Shin-Osaka Station through Jūsō.^[1]

Layout

This station has two island platforms and two side platforms serving six tracks on the ground level, enabling to change trains from the Kobe Line for Umeda to the Takarazuka Line for Takarazuka and Minoo on one island platform between Tracks 2 and 3, and from the Takarazuka Line for Umeda to the Kyoto Line for Kyoto (Kawaramachi, Arashiyama) and Kita-Senri on another island platform between Tracks 4 and 5.

There is a returning track in the south of the station between the Kobe Line and the Takarazuka Line. The track is used for the trains for the Kobe Line and the Takarazuka Line running to and from Shojaku Workshop for maintenance, and for seasonal trains running between Kobe or Takarazuka and Arashiyama via the Kobe Line and the Kyoto Line.

Adjacent stations

Notes

1. ^ See the references section of ja:大阪市営地下鉄四つ橋線 for news articles in Japanese.