Shin-Osaka

Weekday departures: 1,307/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 1,307/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:04 / 24:41 (00:41 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 9:00–10:00 (87)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 2 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

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: San'yo Shinkansen, Tokaido Main Line, Tokaido Shinkansen, JR Osaka Higashi Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Osaka Metro Midosuji Line: no timetable data

• San'yo Shinkansen: Shin-Kobe
• Tokaido Main Line: Higashi-Yodogawa ⇄ Osaka
• Tokaido Shinkansen: Kyoto

Shin-Ōsaka Station opened on 1 October 1964 as the western terminus of the new Tōkaidō Shinkansen, timed to coincide with the Tokyo Olympics. It was built about three kilometres north of the existing Ōsaka Station because the Umeda district was already crowded with Hankyū's terminal and the Umeda freight yard, leaving no room for high-speed platforms; siting Shin-Ōsaka also avoided crossing the Yodogawa twice on the planned San'yō extension. The Osaka Municipal Subway Midōsuji Line station opened a week earlier on 24 September 1964. The San'yō Shinkansen began through service in 1972, and the JR West Osaka Higashi Line extended into the station with full service from 16 March 2019. JR Central operates the Shinkansen platforms and JR West the conventional-line platforms.

Under the pre-war "Bullet Train" plan, the neighbouring Higashi-Yodogawa Station, opened on 1 April 1940, was to be renamed "Shin-Ōsaka" once the line opened; when the Tōkaidō Shinkansen was actually built after the war the route near Osaka was changed, so the name was used for a new station 0.7 km away — which is why Higashi-Yodogawa and Shin-Ōsaka stations sit unusually close together.