is a railway station in the Kyōbashi district of Jōtō-ku and Miyakojima-ku, Osaka, Japan, jointly operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West), the private railway operator Keihan Railway, and the Osaka Metro.
Lines
;JR West:
The Tōzai and Gakkentoshi Lines form a combined service line in practice.
;Keihan Railway (KH04):
- 18px Keihan Main Line
;Osaka Metro:
- (N22)
JR West
, Kyobashi was the fourth-busiest station in the JR West network after Osaka Station, Kyoto Station and Tennoji Station.
Layout
Gakkentoshi Line (Katamachi Line) and JR Tōzai Line
There are an island platform and a side platform with two tracks at ground level.
Osaka Loop Line
There are two side platforms with two elevated tracks.
History
The station opened on 17 October 1895.
During the bombing of Osaka on August 14, 1945, a one-ton bomb directly struck the Katamachi Line platform and killed 700 to 800 evacuees. Kyobashi was one of the last sites to be bombed in Japan during World War II, followed only by the bombing of Akita, later the same day. A memorial was erected on the site in 1947, and anniversary services have been held at the station every year since 1955.
With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR West.
Keihan Railway
Kyobashi is the busiest station in the Keihan network.
This station is the transfer station between the Keihan Line and the Nakanoshima Line. The connections are follows:
:eastbound: trains from Nakanoshima ←→ trains from Yodoyabashi
:westbound: trains for Nakanoshima ←→ trains for Yodoyabashi
Layout
Two island platforms on the 4th level serve four tracks.
Adjacent stations
History
The Keihan terminal opened on 15 April 1910, originally named . It was renamed Kyōbashi on 1 October 1949, and was rebuilt as an elevated station, completed on 15 April 1970.