Shitennoji-mae Yuhigaoka Station
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is a train station on the Osaka Municipal Subway
Tanimachi Line in Tennoji-ku
, Osaka
, Japan
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Osaka Municipal Subway
is the metro network in the city of Osaka, Japan, forming an integral part of the extensive mass transit system of Greater Osaka , having 125 out of the 1,108 rail stations in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto region. In 2010 the greater Osaka region had 13 million rail passengers daily of which the Osaka...
Tanimachi Line in Tennoji-ku
Tennoji-ku, Osaka
is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It is named after the Shitennō-ji , which is located in the ward.-General information:...
, Osaka
Osaka
is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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History
- December 17, 1968: "Shitennoji-mae (Yuhigaoka) Station" opened.
- August 29, 1997: renamed "Shitennoji-mae Yuhigaoka Station".
Layout
- There are two side platformSide platformA Side platform is a platform positioned to the side of a pair of tracks at a railway station, a tram stop or a transitway. A pair of side platforms are often provided on a dual track line with a single side platform being sufficient for a single track line...
s with two tracks on the first basement.
Surroundings
- Shitennō-jiShitenno-jiis a Buddhist temple in Osaka, Japan.Prince Shōtoku is said to have constructed this temple in 593. It is the first Buddhist and oldest officially administered temple in Japan, although the temple buildings have been rebuilt over the centuries. Most of the present structures are from when the...
- Tennoji Police Station
- Osaka Immigration Office, Tennoji Branch