Sennichimae Line

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Sennichimae Line
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km actual fare base JR West Tōzai Line Ebie Hanshin Main Line 0.0 0.0 Nodahanshin JR West Tōzai Line Noda JR West Osaka Loop Line 0.6 0.6 Tamagawa Dōjima River (old Yodo River ) Tosabori River 1.9 1.9 Awaza Chūō Line Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line 2.8 2.9 Nishi-Nagahori Hanshin Namba Line Kōya Line 3.7 3.8 Sakuragawa JR Namba JR West Kansai Line (Yamatoji Line) Yotsubashi Line Osaka Namba 4.5 4.9 Namba Midōsuji Line Kōya Line & Nankai Main Line Kintetsu Nippombashi 5.2 5.6 Nippombashi Sakaisuji Line Tanimachi Line 6.1 6.6 Tanimachi Kyūchōme Osaka Uehommachi 7.2 7.7 Tsuruhashi JR West Osaka Loop Line 8.7 9.2 Imazato Imazatosuji Line 9.6 10.1 Shin-Fukae Kintetsu Railway Nara Line & Kintetsu Osaka Line 10.6 11.1 Shōji 11.5 12.0 Kita-Tatsumi 12.6 13.1 Minami-Tatsumi

The Osaka Metro Sennichimae Line (千日前線, Sennichimae-sen) is an underground

publications, it is written as Line No. 5 (Sennichimae Line) (5号線（千日前線）). Station numbers are indicated by the letter S.

Platform screen doors are located at all of the stations. The first station, Minami-Tatsumi, had them installed on March 14, 2014 and operation started in April. The final station, Nodahanshin, had them installed and operating in December.^[2][3] All platforms are long enough for eight-car trains however a part of each platform has been blocked off, since only four-car trains are needed to carry the amount of traffic on the line. In 2013 the line carried on average 181,238 passengers per day.^[4]

History

• 16 April 1969 – Nodahanshin – Sakuragawa (opening)
• 25 July 1969 – Tanimachi Kyūchōme – Imazato (opening)
• 10 September 1969 – Imazato – Shin-Fukae (opening)
• 11 March 1970 – Sakuragawa – Tanimachi Kyūchōme (opening)
• 2 December 1981 – Shin-Fukae – Minami-Tatsumi (opening)

Stations

All stations are in Osaka.

No.	Station[5]	Japanese	Distance (km)	Transfers	Location
S 11	Nodahanshin	野田阪神	0.0	Hanshin: Main Line – Noda H JR Tōzai Line – Ebie	Fukushima-ku
S 12	Tamagawa	玉川	0.6	O Osaka Loop Line – Noda
S 13	Awaza	阿波座	1.9	Chūō Line (C15)	Nishi-ku
S 14	Nishi-Nagahori	西長堀	2.9	Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line (N13)
S 15	Sakuragawa	桜川	3.8	Hanshin: Hanshin Namba Line	Naniwa-ku
S 16	Namba	難波・なんば	4.9	Midōsuji Line (M20) Yotsubashi Line (Y15) Koya Line Kintetsu Namba Line – Ōsaka Namba Hanshin: Hanshin Namba Line – Ōsaka Namba Q Yamatoji Line (Kansai Line)	Chūō-ku
S 17	Nippombashi	日本橋	5.6	Sakaisuji Line (K17) Kintetsu Namba Line – Kintetsu Nippombashi
S 18	Tanimachi Kyūchōme	谷町九丁目	6.6	Tanimachi Line (T25) D Osaka Line A Kintetsu-Namba Line Osaka Uehommachi	Tennōji-ku
S 19	Tsuruhashi	鶴橋	7.7	O Osaka Loop Line D Osaka Line A Kintetsu-Nara Line
S 20	Imazato	今里	9.2	Imazatosuji Line (I21)	Higashinari-ku
S 21	Shin-Fukae	新深江	10.1
S 22	Shōji	小路	11.1		Ikuno-ku
S 23	Kita-Tatsumi	北巽	12.0
S 24	Minami-Tatsumi	南巽	13.1

Rolling stock

Current

• 25 series (since 1991)

As there is no dedicated rolling stock depot on the Sennichimae Line, trains are transferred to Morinomiya Depot on the Chūō Line via a connecting track at Awaza.

Former

• 50 series (1969–1994)
• 100 series (later version) (1979–1989)
• 30 series (1991–1995)

References