Hotarugaike

Weekday departures: 338/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 304/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:19 / 24:30 (00:30 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (23)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 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: Hankyu Takarazuka Main Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Osaka Monorail Main Line: no timetable data

• Hankyu Takarazuka Main Line: Ishibashi Handai-mae ⇄ Toyonaka

Hotarugaike Station opened on 25 April 1910 as Hotaru-ga-ike Station on the Mino-Arima Electric Tramway, the predecessor of today's Hankyu Railway, about a month after the Takarazuka Main Line itself began running. The current Hankyu station building was completed on 30 September 1994. The Osaka Monorail platforms above opened on 1 April 1997 as part of the extension west to Osaka International (Itami) Airport, finally turning Hotarugaike into a junction. Express services began calling here on 30 August 2003. Station numbering HK-47 was introduced across the Hankyu network on 21 December 2013, and platform screen doors followed on the monorail in December 2019 and on Hankyu in March 2025.

Founder Ichizō Kobayashi rejected the geographically obvious name "Asada" for being dull and instead borrowed the name of a nearby firefly-viewing pond about 400 metres northeast of the station.