Hanaten

Weekday departures: 461/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 461/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:56 / 24:21 (00:21 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 10:00–11:00 (35)

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: JR Osaka Higashi Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• JR Katamachi Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• JR Osaka Higashi Line: Shigino ⇄ Takaida-Chuo
• JR Katamachi Line: Shigino ⇄ Tokuan

Hanaten Station opened on 22 August 1895 when the Naniwa Railway constructed its line between Shijōnawate and Katamachi. Local opposition to railway construction — citing fears that sparks from steam locomotives would set thatched roofs and crops alight — forced the track to be laid through the dry bed of the old Yamato River. The station was nationalised in 1907 and joined the Katamachi Line in 1913. From 1927 onward Hanaten became a major freight junction with branches toward Yodogawa, Hirano, and Suita. A bridge-style station building opened on 1 July 2002, replacing the ageing surface structure. Service on the Osaka Higashi Line began with a partial opening on 15 March 2008, with full through service to Shin-Osaka following on 16 March 2019.

When the line was first surveyed in the 1890s, residents protested railway construction with two arguments: that locomotive sparks would burn straw roofs and crops, and that having a station would lure local young people into spending their time downtown in Osaka — so the tracks were ultimately laid in the dry bed of the old Yamato River to bypass populated land.