Yumeshima Station

Yumeshima Station

夢洲駅
Osaka Metro station
General information
LocationYumeshima, Konohana, Osaka, Osaka
（大阪市此花区夢洲）
Japan
Operated by Osaka Metro
Line(s)
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Other information
Station code C 09 
Services
Preceding station Osaka Metro Following station
Terminus Chūō Line Cosmosquare
 C 10 
towards Nagata
Location
Yumeshima Station is located in Osaka Prefecture
Yumeshima Station
Yumeshima Station
Location within Osaka Prefecture
Yumeshima Station is located in Japan
Yumeshima Station
Yumeshima Station
Yumeshima Station (Japan)

Yumeshima Station (夢洲駅, Yumeshima-eki) is a metro station under construction on the Osaka Metro Chūō Line in Konohana-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is scheduled to open on January 19, 2025.[1] This station will be the westernmost station of the Osaka metro system in 2025. Currently, Osaka Metro projects that the station will be used by a maximum of 130,000 people daily during the Expo 2025.[2]

History

Railway extensions to Yumeshima were planned first back when Osaka was bidding as a host city for the 2008 Summer Olympics, in which Yumeshima was intended to have an Olympic village.[3] However, the extension was cancelled after the bid failed, with only the Yumesaki Tunnel being completed before the construction was stopped.[3] After Osaka was picked to host the Expo 2025 in 2018, Hirofumi Yoshimura, the mayor of Osaka at the time announced that the Osaka Metro Chūō Line will be extended to Yumeshima.[4]

The station was constructed by Obayashi Corporation, Kumagai Gumi, Tokyu Construction [ja], and Toyo Construction [ja].[5] The station is scheduled to open on January 19, 2025.[1]

Layout

Reference:[6]

1F Street Level Exit/Entrance
B1F Concourse One-way faregates, ticket/ICOCA/PiTaPa machines, station agent
B2F Platform 1 → Chūō Line towards Hommachi, Morinomiya, Nagata, Ikoma, and Gakken Nara-Tomigaoka (Osakako) →
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Platform 2 → Chūō Line (Same as platform 1) →

Details

Yumeshima Station will be the new terminus of the Osaka Metro Chūō Line, located 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) away from the adjacent Cosmosquare Station, located northeast of the planned Expo 2025 site.[5][7] The station will be operated by Osaka Metro using infrastructure owned by Osaka Port Transport System [ja].[1] Trains will service the station from 5:02 am to 12:13 am for the entire week. Train frequencies vary from to 4 to 10 minutes.[6]

The design was revealed on April 27, 2022.[8] The station is built underground in the island of Yumeshima, with the first basement floor being the concourse and the second floor being the station platform.[1] The design concept for the station is "theater of another world".[9] Line-shaped lights will be placed in the center of the platform. Platform screen doors are planned to be installed in the platform. The platform will have an estimated length of 160 meters, and will be 10 meters wide.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d 株式会社インプレス (2024-09-05). "Osaka Metro延伸 コスモスクエア～夢洲が25年1月19日開業". Impress Watch (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-09-06.
  2. ^ 日本放送協会. "万博会場最寄りの大阪メトロ夢洲駅 来年１月１９日開業｜NHK 関西のニュース". NHK NEWS WEB (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-09-07.
  3. ^ a b "2025年大阪万博の会場、夢洲はオリンピック開催候補地だった？浮き沈みする人工島の歴史を新聞・雑誌記事の掲載件数で追う｜G-Searchデータベースサービス". www.g-search.or.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-09-10.
  4. ^ "大阪万博決定、誘致委幹部ら「万博で世界の課題解決」 - 日本経済新聞" (in Japanese). 2023-10-20. Archived from the original on 2023-10-20. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
  5. ^ a b "大阪・関西万博の舞台「夢洲」に地下鉄をつなぐ | OBAYASHI Thinking｜大林組". 大林組 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-09-07.
  6. ^ a b "Osaka Metro 中央線夢洲駅の時刻表、構内図をお知らせします｜Osaka Metro". Osaka Metro (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-01-06.
  7. ^ a b 日経クロステック（xTECH） (2024-09-24). "万博会場の最寄り「夢洲駅」が25年1月19日に前倒し開業、大阪駅から電車で約30分". 日経クロステック（xTECH） (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-10-10.
  8. ^ "北港テクノポート線（仮称）夢洲駅基本デザイン（本編）" [North Technoport line (placeholder name) Yumeshima Station design (main part)] (PDF) (in Japanese). 27 April 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  9. ^ "大阪メトロ｢万博の玄関口｣夢洲駅の実力は？". 東洋経済オンライン (in Japanese). 2024-12-19. Retrieved 2025-01-06.