Tanimachi 9-chome

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Tanimachi Kyūchōme Station opened on 17 December 1968 as a stop on the Osaka Municipal Subway Line 2 (the present-day Tanimachi Line). It became an interchange on 25 July 1969 when Line 5 (now the Sennichimae Line) opened as a stub from here to Imazato; the Lines 2 and 5 were named Tanimachi and Sennichimae respectively on 6 December that year. On 11 March 1970 the Sennichimae Line was extended west to Sakuragawa, completing the through-route to Noda-Hanshin. Platform-edge doors entered service on the Sennichimae platforms on 30 August 2014 and on the Tanimachi platforms on 15 March 2025. The station passed to Osaka Metro on 1 April 2018. It connects via underground passages to Kintetsu's Ōsaka-Uehommachi Station for the Nara, Namba and Osaka lines.

Locals call the station "Tanikyū" (谷九) — a nickname that took hold as the older "Ueroku" (上六, for Uehommachi 6-chōme) lost its standing as the area's transit hub: the Tanimachi 9-chōme tram stop served only the east–west Kujō–Kōzu line, so north–south journeys once meant going to the Uehommachi 6-chōme tram stop on Uemachi-suji, until the abolition of the trams and the opening of the subway reversed the two streets' fortunes.