Shin-Ōsaka Station


Shin-Osaka Station is a railway station in Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is the western terminus of the high-speed Tōkaidō Shinkansen line from Tokyo, and the eastern terminus of the San'yō Shinkansen. The lines are physically joined, and many trains offer through service.
Shin-Osaka is about 3 km from the older Ōsaka Station. The new station was built in 1964 to avoid the engineering difficulties of running Shinkansen lines into the center of the city. The JR Kyoto Line and subway Midōsuji Line provide convenient connections to other stations around the city center.

Lines

Station layout

The JR station consists of four island platforms serving eight tracks for JR West Lines at ground level, with two side platforms and three island platforms serving eight Shinkansen tracks operated by JR Central located on the fourth level, over the platforms and tracks for the JR West Lines in the east. There was a space on the east side of former Track 18 from the opening of the station, where another platform serving current Tracks 17 and 18 is located, and the existing services shifted eastward one platform at a time, with the westernmost platform used by services on the Osaka Higashi Line, was commenced by the 16 March 2019. On the north side of the station, an additional Shinkansen platform serving Track 27 was located on March 16, 2013..

Limited express trains

;for the Hokuriku Main Line
;for the Tōkaidō Line, and the Takayama Line
;for the Hanwa Line, the Kansai Airport Line, and the Kinokuni Line
;for the Fukuchiyama Line
;for the Sanin region via the Chizu Express Chizu Line

Osaka Metro

Station layout

This station has one island platform with two tracks on the third level, located to the west of the platforms and tracks for the Shinkansen.

Adjacent stations

Surrounding area

Inside the station