History
The station opened concurrently with the opening of the Takarazuka Line and the Minoo Line on March 10, 1910. Since then the structure of the station as an interchange of the two lines has not been largely changed except for the stretched platforms.
On June 25, 1952, hours before the first scheduled train of the day, hundreds of protesters against the Korean War who left a meeting at the Osaka University campus thronged Ishibashi Station and forced station master to run a train to transport them to Osaka. After getting off the forcedly operated train at Hattori Station, they marched and burst into Suita Classification Yard of Japanese National Railways. As a result, more than one hundred people were arrested on charge of riot. The incident is called the Suita Incident.
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