Umeda Station (梅田駅, Umeda-eki?) is a railway station located in Kita-ku in the northern commercial center of Osaka, Japan. It is the busiest station in Western Japan, serving 2,343,727 passengers daily in 2005.
Umeda Station is served by the following railways:
- Hankyu Railway (Kōbe Line, Kyōto Line, Takarazuka Line)
- Hanshin Electric Railway (Main Line)
- Osaka Municipal Subway (Midōsuji Line, Station number: M16)
- Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight) (Umeda Freight Branch of Tōkaidō Main Line) - freight only
The nearby stations Ōsaka (JR West), Kitashinchi (JR West Tōzai Line), Nishi-Umeda (Osaka Subway Yotsubashi Line, Y11) and Higashi-Umeda (Osaka Subway Tanimachi Line, T20) are within walking distance and connected by a large complex of underground malls.
Read more about Umeda Station: Hanshin Railway, Hankyu Railway, Osaka Municipal Subway, Japan Freight Railway, Surroundings
Famous quotes containing the word station:
“[T]here is no situation so deplorable ... as that of a gentlewoman in real poverty.... Birth, family, and education become misfortunes when we cannot attain some means of supporting ourselves in the station they throw us into. Our friends and former acquaintances look on it as a disgrace to own us.... If we were to attempt getting our living by any trade, people in that station would think we were endeavoring to take their bread out of their mouths.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)