Zuikō Yonchōme Station
metro station in Osaka, Osaka prefecture, Japan
Zuiko Yonchome Station (瑞光四丁目駅, Zuikō Yonchōme-eki; station number: I12) is a train station on the Osaka Metro Imazatosuji Line in Higashiyodogawa-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is one of two nearest stations to Osaka University of Economics as well as Kami-Shinjo Station on the Hankyu Railway Kyoto Line.
Layout
There is an island platform with two tracks underground. The platform is fenced with platform gates.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Zuikō Yonchōme Station” is metro station in Osaka, Osaka prefecture, Japan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Zuikō, Yonchōme and Station, not as a finished interpretation.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q180497. Authority coordinates are 34.752, 135.545. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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This entry incorporates text from “Zuikō Yonchōme Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.