Tengachaya

Weekday departures: 860/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 782/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:00 / 24:53 (00:53 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 18:00–19:00 (58)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 to 3 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: Nankai Main Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Osaka Municipal Subway Sakaisuji Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• Osaka Municipal Subway Sakaisuji Line: Dobutsuen-mae
• Nankai Main Line: Kishinosato-tamade

Tengachaya Station opened on 29 December 1885 as one of Nankai's earliest stations, originally on the Hankai Railway. A short branch to Tennōji (the Tennōji Branch Line) opened on 26 October 1900, and the Tengachaya workshop was established in 1903. The line was elevated between 1993 and 1995. The Sakaisuji Line (then the Osaka Municipal Subway, now Osaka Metro) extended here on 4 March 1993, transforming Tengachaya into a major interchange and pushing ridership up for 26 consecutive years until the 2020 pandemic. From the 24 March 2001 timetable revision Main Line limited expresses ("Southern") and expresses began stopping here; all Rapi:t services—including the Rapi:t α—followed on 22 February 2003, completing the full stop pattern for all Nankai Main Line and Kōya Line trains.

The Sakaisuji Line's lone side platform (track 1) was originally built in anticipation of through limited expresses running from Hankyu's Kyōto-Kawaramachi to Tengachaya, conceived as an access service from Kyoto to the newly opened Kansai Airport—a plan that never materialised, leaving the platform used by only one train a day at first.