Umeda Station, Railway station hub in Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan

Umeda Station is a major transportation hub in Kita-ku, Osaka, connecting multiple railway operators and linking different areas of western Japan. The complex includes passenger terminals for Hankyu Railway, Hanshin Electric Railway, and Osaka Metro, with facilities extending both above and below ground level.

Hanshin's Umeda terminal opened on 21 December 1906 at ground level and moved underground on 21 March 1939. Hankyu's station followed on 10 March 1910, was elevated in 1926, rebuilt at ground level in 1934 and shifted to its present site in 1971 to allow 8-car trains. Osaka Metro's Midosuji Line platform began as a temporary station in 1933 and moved to its current position in 1935.

Hankyu's Osaka-umeda terminal carries the name of the Kansai private railway that built it, and its 1929 department store beside the tracks was a pioneer of the model in which an urban railway runs a department store. The BIG MAN video screen above the Kinokuniya bookshop is a customary meeting point. Hanshin's underground concourse sits next to its own department store.

The three metro stations are separate: Midosuji Line Umeda (M16), Tanimachi Line Higashi-Umeda (T20) and Yotsubashi Line Nishi-Umeda (Y11), linked by underground walkways. Transfer between them counts as one journey if you stay within 30 minutes and pass no exit gate. Hankyu platforms are on the third floor, Hanshin's on the second basement.

The three Osaka Metro stations here are counted as one fare area: passengers who transfer between Umeda (Midosuji Line), Higashi-Umeda (Tanimachi Line) and Nishi-Umeda (Yotsubashi Line) within 30 minutes pass through without exiting, and the trip is charged as a single journey. Together the three handled 676,313 passengers a day in November 2023.