Fukushima Station, Railway station in Fukushima-ku, Japan.
Fukushima Station in Fukushima-ku, Osaka, is operated by JR West and Hanshin Electric Railway. The JR West part has an elevated island platform serving two tracks on the Osaka Loop Line; the Hanshin part has two underground side platforms serving two tracks on the Main Line. Shin-Fukushima Station on the JR Tōzai Line is a few minutes' walk away.
The JR West station opened on 5 April 1898 as part of the former Nishi-Nari Railway, was nationalised under the 1906 Railway Nationalisation Act and became a JR West station with the 1987 privatisation. It was rebuilt as an elevated station in 1964. The Hanshin station followed on 12 April 1905 and moved underground in 1993 when the line between Umeda and Noda was rerouted.
Three stations named Fukushima stand within a few minutes' walk of each other in Fukushima-ku: JR West's Fukushima (1898), Hanshin's Fukushima (1905) and JR Shin-Fukushima (1997). The area around them is a commercial district of office buildings; south of the stations, the former Osaka University Hospital site became Hotarumachi and the Osaka Nakanoshima Government Building.
Ticket machines with multilingual support make purchasing tickets straightforward for visitors of all backgrounds. The station gets busiest during morning and late afternoon hours when commuters are traveling to and from work.
Three stations named Fukushima stand within a few minutes' walk of each other in Fukushima-ku: JR West's Fukushima (1898), Hanshin's Fukushima (1905) and JR Shin-Fukushima (1997). During planning, Shin-Fukushima carried the provisional name "Fukushima", the same as the Osaka Loop Line station.
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