Bentencho

Weekday departures: 875/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 875/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:03 / 24:11 (00:11 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 18:00–19:00 (58)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Osaka Loop Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Osaka Metro Chuo Line: no timetable data

• Osaka Loop Line: Nishikujo ⇄ Taisho (Osaka)

Bentenchō Station opened in two parts — the JNR Osaka Loop Line station on 25 April 1961 between Nishi-Kujō and the Sakaigawa Signal Box, then the Osaka Municipal Subway 4th Line (today the Chuo Line) Bentenchō Station on 11 December 1961, making it a transfer point. The Chuo Line was extended on 31 October 1964, the station passed to JR West on 1 April 1987, and a north exit financed mainly by the city opened in July 1990. ICOCA and PiTaPa became usable in November 2003 and February 2006 respectively, and the long-standing Transportation Science Museum closed beside the JR station on 6 April 2014, with portions of its collection moving to the Kyoto Railway Museum that opened in April 2016. A new JR station building entered service on 1 March 2025.

The Osaka Metro platforms sit on an elevated deck above the JR station; measured from ground level up to the platform, it is the highest subway station in Japan.