Kongō Station
railway station in Osakasayama, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Kongō Station (金剛駅, Kongō-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Ōsakasayama, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Nankai Electric Railway. It has the station number "NK66".
Lines
Kongō Station is served by the Nankai Koya Line, and is 22.9 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Shiomibashi and 22.2 kilometers from Nanba.
Layout
The station consists of two ground-level island platforms connected by an elevated station building.
Platforms
Adjacent stations
History
Kongō Station opened on April 19, 1937.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 32,893 passengers daily.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kongō Station” as railway station in Osakasayama, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as railway station in Osakasayama, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
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 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6429296. Authority coordinates are 34.495, 135.559. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1937 and 2019.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kongō 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.