Tennoji

Weekday departures: 1,315/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 1,315/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:49 / 24:24 (00:24 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 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 complete: JR Yamatoji Line, JR Hanwa Line, Osaka Loop Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Osaka Metro Midosuji Line: no timetable data
• Osaka Metro Tanimachi Line: no timetable data

• JR Yamatoji Line: Shin-Imaimiya ⇄ Tobushijo-Mae
• JR Hanwa Line: Bishoen
• Osaka Loop Line: Shin-Imaimiya ⇄ Teradacho

Tennōji Station opened on 14 May 1889 as an intermediate stop on the first Osaka Railway's Minatochō (now JR Namba) to Kashiwara line, today part of the Kansai Main Line. The route was extended to Tamatsukuri in 1895, making the station a branch point. After a 1900 merger placed it on the Kansai Railway and a 1907 nationalisation moved it to state operation, the private Hanwa Electric Railway built its own Hanwa-Tennōji terminus alongside in 1929. Wartime nationalisation in 1944 absorbed that line into the Hanwa Line and consolidated all operations under the JNR Tennōji Station, today a major southern Osaka terminus.

When the Hanwa Electric Railway built Hanwa-Tennōji Station in 1929, its platforms used fully separated boarding and alighting—odd-numbered platforms for boarding, even-numbered for alighting—with a hidden under-platform passage forcing passengers down a single one-way route through the gates.