Daikokuchō Station

Metro station in Osaka, Japan

Midōsuji Line
Yotsubashi Line

Platforms2 island platforms with cross-platform interchangeTracks4Other informationStation code M 21 Y 16 HistoryOpened21 April 1938; 86 years ago (1938-04-21)PassengersFY201630,978 daily^[1] Services

Preceding station	Osaka Metro			Following station
Namba M 20 towards Esaka		Midōsuji Line		Dōbutsuen-mae M 22 towards Nakamozu
Namba Y 15 towards Nishi-Umeda		Yotsubashi Line		Hanazonochō Y 17 towards Suminoekōen

Track layout

Legend

1, 4: Midosuji Line 2, 3: Yotsubashi Line ↑ (2, 3) Namba (1, 4) →
			4 3 2 1

















1, 4: Dobutsuen-mae→ 2, 3: ↓Hanazonocho

Location
Daikokuchō Location within Osaka Prefecture Show map of Osaka Prefecture Daikokuchō Daikokuchō (Japan) Show map of Japan

Daikokuchō Station (大国町駅, Daikokuchō-eki) is a railway station on the Osaka Metro in Shikitsu-higashi Sanchome, Naniwa-ku, Osaka, Japan.

Lines

Osaka Metro
- Midōsuji Line (Station Number: M21)
- Yotsubashi Line(Station Number: Y16)

While Midōsuji and Yotsubashi lines are connected at several stations, Daikokuchō is the only such station where passengers can transfer the trains from one line to the other on the same platform in case of trains of same direction (cross-platform interchange).

Layout

This station has two island platforms^[2] on the second basement, serving four tracks.

G	Street Level	Exit / Entrance
B1F	Mezzanine	Ticket barriers, ticket/ICOCA/PiTaPa machines, restrooms
B2F Platform level	Platform 1	Midōsuji Line towards Nakamozu (Dobutsuen-mae) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the right/left
	Platform 2	Yotsubashi Line towards Suminoekōen (Hanazonocho) →
	Platform 3	← Yotsubashi Line towards Nishi-Umeda (Namba)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left/right
	Platform 4	← Midōsuji Line towards Esaka (Namba) (through service to Minoh-kayano on the Kitakyu Namboku Line)

1	■ Midōsuji Line	for Tennōji and Nakamozu
2	■ Yotsubashi Line	for Tamade and Suminoekōen

3	■ Yotsubashi Line	for Yotsubashi, Higobashi and Nishi-Umeda
4	■ Midōsuji Line	for Umeda, Shin-Osaka, Esaka and Minoh-kayano

Exit 3 (2008)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Daikokuchō Station.

Official website (in Japanese)
Official website (in English)

References

^ "路線別駅別乗降人員" (PDF). Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau. November 8, 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
^ Schleife, Hans-Werner; et al. (1992). Metros der Welt [Metros of the world] (in German) (2nd ed.). transpress Verlagsgesellschaft. p. 266. ISBN 3-344-70715-9.