Kitashinchi

Weekday departures: 279/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 279/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:19 / 24:21 (00:21 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 10:00–11:00 (17)

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 incomplete:

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

• JR Tozai Line: Osakatemmangu ⇄ Shin Fukushima

The station name was decided as Kitashinchi on 16 May 1996; the provisional working name during construction had been Sakurabashi. Kitashinchi Station opened on 8 March 1997, coinciding with the full opening of the JR Tōzai Line between Amagasaki and Kyōbashi, and "J-Through" magnetic-card service was introduced. The ICOCA IC card came into service on 1 November 2003. On 8 March 2011 the JR Takarazuka / JR Tōzai / Gakkentoshi operations management system and an approach melody were introduced. Platform screen doors entered service on 27 March 2011, the first such installation on a JR West conventional-line station. The automatic ticket gates were replaced on 7 August 2013, and station numbering was introduced on 17 March 2018.

At 23.95 metres below sea level, Kitashinchi is the deepest station in the JR West system. Although officially separate from Osaka Station, holders of certain tickets and passes — defined zones of the Osaka Loop Line between Kyōbashi and Osaka, or the JR Kobe Line between Osaka and Amagasaki — may treat the two stations as the same for boarding and alighting purposes. The station symbol is the rice ear, chosen for the station's proximity to Dōjima, where the Edo-period rice market once stood.