Osaka Umeda (Hankyu)

Weekday departures: 784/day · Sat & holiday departures: 668/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:00 / 24:10 (00:10 next day)

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (58)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

• Hankyu Kobe Main Line: Nakatsu (Osaka · Hankyu)
• Hankyu Takarazuka Main Line: Nakatsu (Osaka · Hankyu)

Osaka-Umeda Station opened on 10 March 1910 as Umeda Station, built by the Minoo-Arima Electric Tramway, a Hankyu predecessor, on its new Umeda-Takarazuka line. After 1959, ridership grew sharply and platform extensions hit their limit against the adjoining Japanese National Railways (JNR) elevated line, so from 1966 to 1973 it was rebuilt, elevated, on its current site north of the JNR line. It was renamed Osaka-Umeda on 1 October 2019 to mark it as Osaka's hub. Today it is the terminus of Hankyu's Kobe, Takarazuka, and Kyoto main lines, with 10 platforms and 9 dead-end tracks — Japan's largest such layout, JR included — and connects directly to the Hankyu Umeda Main Store, built on founder Ichizō Kobayashi's terminal-department-store model.

Each of the station's three lines has its own departure chime: bamboo represents the Kyoto Line, an upscale, refined mood represents the Takarazuka Line, and the sea represents the Kobe Line.