Hatsushiba

Weekday departures: 89/day · Sat & holiday departures: 85/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:35 / 24:12 (00:12 next day)

Busiest hour: 9:00–10:00 (7)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Nankai Koya Line: Shirasagi ⇄ Hagiharatenjin

Hatsushiba Station opened on 30 January 1898 as Nishimura Station when the Kōya Railway began service between Ōshōji (now Sakai-Higashi) and Sayama. The station building and ticket gate were originally about 50 metres further toward Kita-Noda than the present building. Through corporate consolidations the station became part of Kōya Tozan Railway on 15 November 1907, Ōsaka Kōya Railway after the 30 April 1915 name change, and Nankai Railway on 6 September 1922 by merger. It was renamed Hatsushiba on 1 August 1935 and made a stop for express trains; on the same day the down-bound platform was rebuilt as an island platform serving two tracks, and the station building and gate were moved to the Namba-side end of the platforms, connected to the platforms by underpass. Through corporate consolidation it became Kintetsu on 1 June 1944, then passed to Nankai Electric Railway on 1 June 1947 by line transfer. The station was downgraded from an express stop to a semi-express stop in 1968. Wheelchair-accessible gates, an accessible toilet, and platform-height raising were completed in 2010, eliminating the dedicated school gate. In spring 2011, an elevator and a dedicated underpass for elevator users were installed. Station numbering (NK61) was introduced on 1 April 2012.

The station was originally Nishimura Station. In 1935 Nankai Railway developed a residential subdivision northeast of the station — the first such housing development the company had undertaken, put on sale from 15 May 1935 — and on that occasion held an in-house competition among its employees for a new station name; "Hatsushiba", devised by an employee who worked as a freight conductor, was selected and adopted on 1 August 1935. The roundabout near the former site of Hatsushiba Ritsumeikan High School was originally a fountain, a remnant of the area's early Shōwa-era garden-city design; the surrounding district remains a quiet residential area with traces of the garden-city character.