Umeda Station
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Umeda Station
梅田駅
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| Prefecture | Osaka (See other stations in Osaka) |
| City | Osaka |
| Ward | Kita |
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| Opened | 1906 (Hanshin) 1910 (Hankyu) 1928 (JR Freight) 1933 (Osaka Municipal Subway) |
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| Operator(s) | Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc. (Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd., Hankyu Corporation) Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau Japan Freight Railway Company |
| Line(s) | Hanshin Electric Railway Main Line Hankyu Railway Kobe Line, Takarazuka Line, Kyoto Line Osaka Municipal Subway Midosuji Line Japan Freight Railway Tōkaidō Main Line West Japan Railway Company (Osaka Station, Kitashinchi Station) Osaka Municipal Subway Tanimachi Line (Higashi-Umeda Stataion), Yotsubashi Line (Nishi-Umeda Station) |
 There is a major bus terminal at this station. |
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Umeda Station (梅田駅 Umeda-eki) is a railway station located in the northern commercial center of Osaka, Japan. It is the busiest station in Western Japan, serving 2,230,000 passengers daily in 2002.
Umeda Station is served by the following railways:
- Osaka Municipal Subway (Midosuji Line, Station number: M16)
- Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight) (Umeda Feright Branch of Tōkaidō Main Line) - freight only
Osaka Station (JR West), Kitashinchi Station (JR West Tozai Line), Nishi-Umeda Station (Osaka Municipal Subway Yotsubashi Line, Y11) and Higashi-Umeda Station (Osaka Municipal Subway Tanimachi Line, T20) are within walking distance and connected by a large complex of underground malls.
Umeda is the name of the area. All facilities of Umeda Station are located within Kita-ku, Osaka.
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[edit] Hanshin Electric Railway
The underground Umeda terminal of Hanshin Electric Railway (officially Umeda Station, but commonly called Hanshin Umeda Station) is located south of Osaka Station, next to underground of Hanshin Department Store. The Hanshin station first opened on December 21, 1906 as a ground level station and moved to the present underground location on March 21, 1939.
[edit] Layout
- There are five bay platforms and four tracks on the second basement. There are east ticket gates on the second basement and center ticket gates and west ticket gates on the first basement.
| 1 | ■Main Line | Limited Expresses through Linited Expresses to the Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line Semi-Expresses in the evening |
for Amagasaki, Koshien, Nishinomiya, Ashiya, Kobe, Akashi and Himeji |
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| 2 | ■Main Line | Limited Expresses through Linited Expresses to the Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line Semi-Expresses in the evening |
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| 3 | ■Main Line | Expresses Rapid Expresses Semi-Expresses in the morning |
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| 4 | ■Main Line | Local trains | for Amagasaki, Koshien, Nishinomiya, Ashiya and Kobe |
[edit] Stations on the Hanshin Railway Main Line next to Umeda
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| Main Line | ||||
| Terminus | Limited Express (直通特急, 特急, every day) | Amagasaki | ||
| Terminus | Morning Limited Express for Umeda (区間特急, on weekdays) | Koshien | ||
| Terminus | Rapid Express (快速急行, rush hour on weekdays) | Noda | ||
| Terminus | Express (急行, every day) | Fukushima | ||
| Terminus | Morning Express for Umeda (区間急行, on weekdays) | Noda | ||
| Terminus | Semi-Express (準急, rush hour on weekdays) | Fukushima | ||
| Terminus | Local (普通, every day) | Fukushima | ||
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[edit] Hankyu Railway
The Umeda terminal of Hankyu Railway (officially Umeda Station, but commonly called Hankyu Umeda Station) is located northeast of Osaka Station.
The station first opened on March 10, 1910 as a ground-level station. The original location of the station was southeast of Osaka Station and the Hankyu (then Minoo-Arima Electric Tramway) tracks crossed the Tōkaidō Main Line by an overpass. The station was elevated on July 5, 1926.
When Osaka Station was elevated in 1934, Hankyu's elevated tracks were forced to be removed and new Umeda Station was built to handle new ground-level tracks. The switching of tracks were carried out on June 1, 1934. This station facility was used until November 28, 1971 when the move of station to the present location was completed. This move was because of a sharp increase of transit which forced Hankyu to operate 8-car trains. The existence of JNR tracks on the northern end of the 1934 station prevented the expansion of the station so that the station could not handle long trains.
After the opening of the current huge elevated station, spaces around and beneath the station, as well as the site of former station, were extensively redeveloped. One of the symbols of the commercial complex surrounding the station is the BIG MAN video screen above the Kinokuniya bookshop, common and necessary places to meet in this bustling railway station.
The Hankyu Department Store, built next to the station in 1929, was a pioneer of the successful business model of department stores run by urban railway companies in Japan. The store is still in business at the original location even after the move of the station (as of 2007, the reconstruction of the store building is in progress).
[edit] Layout
- There are ten bay platforms and nine tracks on the third floor. There are south ticket gates on the third floor and center ticket gates and on Chayamachi ticket gates on the second floor.
| 1 | ■Kyoto Line | ■Limited Expresses ■Commutation Limited Expresses (on weekdays) ■Local trains for Kita-Senri (on weekdays) |
for Takatsuki-shi, Kyoto (Kawaramachi), Arashiyama and Kita-Senri |
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| 2 | ■Kyoto Line | ■Rapid Expresses (in the rush hour) ■Semi-Expresses |
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| 3 | ■Kyoto Line | ■Local trains | |
| 4 | ■Takarazuka Line | ■Expresses for Takarazuka (every day) ■Commutation Semi-Expresses for Minoo (in the morning on weekdays) |
for Takarazuka, Minoo and Nissei-Chūō |
| 5 | ■Takarazuka Line | ■Local trains (every day) ■Commutation Expresses (in the morning on weekdays) |
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| 6 | ■Takarazuka Line | Used on weekdays ■Limited Expresses for Nissei-Chuo ■Commutation Semi-Expresses for Minoo ■Local trains |
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| 7 | ■Kobe Line | ■Local trains (from 6:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. on weekdays) (from 6:00 a.m. until 7:20 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays and Obon days) |
for Nishinomiya-kitaguchi and Kobe (Sannomiya, Shinkaichi) |
| 8 | ■Kobe Line | ■Limited Expresses (from 10:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.) ■Expresses (in the morning on weekdays) ■Commutation Expresses (from the evening until night on weekdays) ■Local trains (every early morning and every night) |
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| 9 | ■Kobe Line | ■Limited Expresses ■Commutation Limited Expresses ■Rapid Expresses ■Local trains (every early morning and every night) |
[edit] Stations on the Hankyu Lines next to Umeda
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| Kobe Line | ||||
| Terminus | Limited Express (特急, from the morning until night every day) Commutation Limited Express (通勤特急, in the morning on weekdays) |
Juso | ||
| Terminus | Rapid Express (快速急行) Express (急行) Commutation Express (通勤急行) |
Juso | ||
| Terminus | Semi-Express terminating at Umeda from the Imazu Line and the Kobe Line (準急, in the morning on weekdays) | Juso | ||
| Terminus | Local (普通, all day every day) | Nakatsu | ||
| Takarazuka Line | ||||
| Terminus | Limited Express (特急 日生エクスプレス) | Juso | ||
| Terminus | Commutation Express (通勤急行, in the morning on weekdays) Express (急行, all day every day) |
Juso | ||
| Terminus | Commutation Semi-Express (通勤準急, in the morning on weekdays) | Juso | ||
| Terminus | Semi-Express terminating at Umeda from the Takarazuka Line (準急, in the morning on weekdays) | Nakatsu | ||
| Terminus | Local (普通, all day every day) | Nakatsu | ||
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| Terminus | Limited Express (特急, every day) Commutation Limited Express (通勤特急, on weekdays) |
Juso | ||
| Terminus | Rapid Express (快速急行) | Juso | ||
| Terminus | Semi-Express (準急, every day) | Juso | ||
| Terminus | Local (普通, every day) | Juso | ||
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[edit] Osaka Municipal Subway
Umeda is the transferring point of three lines of the municipal subway: the Midōsuji Line, the Tanimachi Line and the Yotsubashi Line. Among them, only the Midōsuji Line station is named Umeda, with the station number M16. The Tanimachi Line station is Higashi-Umeda (meaning "East Umeda") and the Yotsubashi Line station is Nishi-Umeda (meaning "West Umeda"). These three stations are connected with each other by underground walkways. A regular ticket of the subway is only valid until the passenger gets out the ticket barrier of the station. The transfer between the three Umeda stations is an exception of this principle; the fare can be calculated as one travel as if the passengers do not exit the station provided the passengers transfer within 30 minutes. [1]
Umeda Station on the Midōsuji Line started its operation on May 20, 1933 as a temporary station. The station was moved to the present location on October 6, 1935. Originally the station with an island platform and two tracks was built amid one tunnel, but on November 5, 1989, the station was expanded to a tunnel existed next to the station (built for Tanimachi Line but due to change of plan remained unused for decades). The two tunnels are separated by a wall with some passages.
[edit] Layout
- There are an island platform and two tracks on the second basement. There are walls with passages in the center of the platform. On upper level of the platform, there are north, center-north-west, center-north-east, center-south and south ticket gates.
| 1 | ■Midosuji Line | southbound for Tennoji and Nakamozu
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| 2 | ■Midosuji Line | northbound for Shin-Osaka and Senri-Chūō |
[edit] Stations on the Midosuji Line next to Umeda
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| Nakatsu M15 | - | Yodoyabashi M17 | ||
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[edit] Japan Freight Railway
Umeda Station of Japan Freight Railway Company is a freight-only station on the Umeda Branchline (unofficial name) of the Tōkaidō Main Line. The station was built to separate freight services from Osaka Station and began operation on December 1, 1928.[2] The yard of the station is located to the north, literally in the backyard, of the Osaka Station.
As of 2007, the relocation work of the freight station to the suburban yards is ongoing. The site, commonly called Osaka Station North Area (大阪駅北地区 Ōsaka-eki Kita-chiku?) or Umeda North Yard (梅田北ヤード Umeda Kita-yādo?), will be redeveloped.[3]
The JR West Limited Express trains also use the freight line to transfer from the Osaka Loop Line to the JR Kyoto Line bypassing Osaka Station.
[edit] Surroundings
- Hankyu Department Stores, Inc.
- Hanshin Department Store
- Diamor Osaka
- Acty Osaka (Daimaru Umeda, Hotel Granvia Osaka)
- HEP NAVIO
- Hankyu Men's
- TOHO Cinemas Umeda
- HEP FIVE
- Hankyu San-Bengai
- Umeda Center Building
- Yodobashi Umeda (Yodobashi Camera Multimedia Umeda, etc.)
- NU Chayamachi
- the headquarters of Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc. (MBS)
- Osaka Marubiru
- Umeda DT Tower
- E-ma
- Whity Umeda
- the Hilton Plaza East
- Hilton Osaka
- Junkudo Umeda
- the Hilton Plaza West
- Osaka Garden City
- HERBIS OSAKA
- the Ritz-Carlton Osaka
- HERBIS ENT
- Osaka Shiki Theatre
- Billboard live Osaka
- HERBIS OSAKA
- Shin Umeda City
[edit] References
- ^ Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau. How to Transfer to Other Subway Lines at Three Stations in Umeda (English). Retrieved on September 23, 2007.
- ^ Ishino, Tetsu et al. (eds.) (1998). Teishajō Hensen Daijiten - Kokutetsu JR Hen II (in Japanese). Tokyo: JTB Corporation, p. 56. ISBN 4533029809.
- ^ Osaka Kita-Umeda Project (Japanese). Retrieved on September 23, 2007.
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