Hirakata-koen

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Hirakata-kōen Station opened on 15 April 1910 as Hirakata Station. On 1 March 1939 an explosion at the Imperial Army's Kin'ya ordnance depot in Hirakata cut services between Kōrien and Kuzuha for five days. The 1 October 1943 wartime merger placed the station under Keihanshin Kyūkō Electric Railway. It was renamed Hirakata-kōen Station on 1 October 1949 in conjunction with the neighbouring Hirakata-Higashiguchi Station being renamed Hirakatashi, and the 1 December 1949 corporate split returned it to Keihan Electric Railway. The pedestrian subway connecting the two platforms was completed on 15 September 1977. From 19 October 2008 express trains called at the station throughout the day; daytime expresses no longer run, but the station is still served by expresses in the early morning and on weekday evenings, alongside sub-express and local trains.

The station is the access point for Hirakata Park ("Hira-pa"), a Keihan-Group amusement venue whose grounds were once city-owned and developed as a municipal park. After a tax change moved the chrysanthemum-doll-show admission revenue from city to prefecture, the city–Keihan relationship soured and in 1952 the park grounds were transferred to Keihan ownership, becoming the present amusement park.