JR Namba Station

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JR Namba Station
JR難波駅
JR-Nanba.jpg
Underground platform
Location
Prefecture Osaka
(See other stations in Osaka)
City Osaka
Ward Naniwa
History
Year opened 1889
Former name Minatomachi Station
Present name since 1994
Rail services
Operator(s) JR West
Line(s) Kansai Main Line
(Yamatoji Line)
OCAT building above the station
Ticket gate

JR Namba Station (JR難波駅 Jeiāru-Nanba-eki?) is a train station in Namba, Naniwa Ward, Osaka, Japan, adjacent to Namba Station (Nankai Railway, Osaka Subway) and Osaka Namba Station (Kintetsu, Hanshin Railway) operated by the West Japan Railway Company. The name of the station was changed from Minatomachi Station (湊町駅) on September 4, 1994, the day Kansai International Airport opened.

JR Namba is the western terminus of the Kansai Main Line (Yamatoji Line).

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[edit] History

The Osaka Railway opened Minatomachi Station as its terminal in Osaka on March 1, 1899. The railway was succeeded by the Kansai Railway in 1900 and was nationalized in 1907. The station was renamed JR Namba on September 4, 1994. New underground facilities opened on March 22, 1996 and replaced the former above-ground station.[1]

[edit] Layout

There are 2 island platforms with four tracks underground.

1, 2 ■Yamatoji Line for Tennoji, Oji, Nara and Takada (mainly rapid service)
3, 4 ■Yamatoji Line for Tennoji, Oji, Nara and Takada (mainly local trains)

[edit] Surroundings

[edit] Bus stops

Osaka City Air Terminal (OCAT) (Osaka Airport Transport Co., Ltd., Kansai Airport Transportatoion Enterprise Co., Ltd., Kintetsu Bus Co., Ltd., Nankai Bus Co., Ltd., Hankyu Bus Co., Ltd., West JR Bus Company, JR Bus Kanto Co., Ltd., Chugoku JR Bus Company, JR Shikoku Bus Company, JR Kyushu Bus Company, Honshi Kaikyo Bus Co., Ltd., Nihon Kotsu Co., Ltd. (Osaka), Nihon Kotsu Co., Ltd. (Tottori), etc.)
  • Gates 1-3
    • Sightseeing buses, Tour buses
  • Gate 4
    • Airport limousine for Osaka International Airport
    • Intercity buses (for Tokyo, Gotemba, Fujiyoshida, Wakasa-Takahama, Obama, Fukuoka, Kagoshima, etc.)
  • Gate 5
    • Airport limousine for Kansai International Airport
    • Intercity buses (for Yokohama, Tokyo, Takayama, Hiroshima, Kure, Kasaoka, Ibara, Kannabe, Tokushima, Kochi, etc.)
    • Intercity buses
  • Gate 6
    • Intercity buses (for Fujisawa, Kamakura, Ofuna, Tachikawa, Akihabara, Narita, Choshi, Kashiwazaki, Nagaoka, Higashi-Sanjo, Nagano, Yudanaka, Hiroshima, Shikoku, Sasebo, Huis Ten Bosch, etc.)
  • Gate 7
    • Intercity buses (for Sendai, Yamagata, Fukushima, Iwaki, Tsukuba, Mito, Utsunomiya, Kawagoe, Kumagaya, Tottori, Yonago, Okayama, Fukuyama, Onomichi, Hofu, Sukumo, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, etc.)
  • Gate 8
    • Intercity buses (for Maizuru, Shirahama, Minabe, Sumoto, Naruto, Tokushima, etc.)
  • Gates 9-10
    • Only for getting off
JR Namba ekimae (Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau)

[edit] Adjacent stations

« Service »
Yamatoji Line
Shin-Imamiya   Yamatoji Liner   Terminus
Shin-Imamiya   Rapid Service   Terminus
Imamiya   Local   Terminus

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ishino, Tetsu et al. (eds.) (1998) (in Japanese). Teishajō Hensen Daijiten - Kokutetsu JR Hen. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 344, vol. II. ISBN 4533029809. 
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Stations on the Yamatoji Line (Kansai Main Line electrified section)

(Kansai Line for Kameyama <<) Kamo – Kizu – Narayama – Nara – Kōriyama – Yamato-Koizumi – Hōryūji – (Wakayama Line for Takada <<) Ōji – Sangō – Kawachi-Katakami – Takaida – Kashiwara – Shiki – Yao – Kyūhōji (>> Osaka Higashi Line for Hanaten) – Kami – Hirano – Tōbu-shijō-mae – Tennōji – Shin-Imamiya - Imamiya (>> Osaka Loop Line for Osaka) - JR Namba
Freight Line: Hirano - Kudara (Freight)
Hanwa Freight Line (abandoned in 2009): Yao – Sugimotocho / Kansai Railway former route (abandoned in 1907): Kamo – Daibutsu - Nara

Coordinates: 34°39′59.1″N 135°29′43.2″E / 34.666417°N 135.495333°E / 34.666417; 135.495333

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