title: Nagai Station (Osaka)
text: # Nagai Station (Osaka)
  
  Nagai Station (長居駅, Nagai eki) is a railway station in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Japan. The station is served by the Hanwa Line of West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and the Midōsuji Line of Osaka Metro; the former uses elevated tracks and the latter uses underground tracks. The subway station is assigned the station number M26. Nagai is located south of Tennoji in Sumiyoshi-ku and maintains Nagai Park and Nagai Stadium, an international standard football stadium home to the J-League team Cerezo Osaka.
  
  ## Layout
  
  ### JR West Hanwa Line
  
  This station is administrated by Sakaishi Station. When it was located on the ground level, Nagai Station had two island platforms serving 2 tracks each. The station is currently elevated (northbound in 2004, southbound in 2006) and has two side platforms serving a track each. Ticket gate is located in the north under the platforms and tracks.
  
  | 1 | ■ Hanwa Line | for Ōtori, Hineno and Wakayama |
  | - | - | - |
  | 2 | ■ Hanwa Line | for Tennōji |
  
  ### Osaka Metro Midosuji Line
  
  The station has two side platforms serving two tracks on the second basement. Ticket gates are located in the north and the south on the first basement.
  
  | 1 | ■ Midosuji Line | for Abiko and Nakamozu |
  | - | - | - |
  | 2 | ■ Midosuji Line | for Tennōji, Namba, Umeda and Senri-Chūō |
  
  ## Surroundings
  
  ### Nagai Park
  
  * Nagai Stadium
  * Nagai Ball Gall Field (Kincho Stadium)
  * Nagai Aid Stadium
  * Nagai Pool
  * Nagai Youth Hostel
  * Nagai Botanical Garden
  * Osaka Museum of Natural History
  * Rinnan-ji
  
  ### Schools
  
  * Osaka Gakugei Senior High School
  * Osaka Gakugei Secondary School
  * Osaka Municipal Nagai Elementary School
  * Osaka Municipal Abiko Junior High School
  
  ### Shopping and finance
  
  * Supermarket Life Nagai
  * Kansai Super Nagai
  * Nagai Hondori Shotengai
  * The Kinki Osaka Bank Nagai Branch
  * The Senshu-Ikeda Bank Nagai Branch
  * The Juso Shinkin Bank Nagai Branch
  * Japan Post Group
     * Sumiyoshi Nagai Post Office
     * Sumiyoshi Nagai-4 Post Office
     * Sumiyoshi Nagai-higashi Post Office
  
  ### Buses
  
  * Subway Nagai (Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau)
     * Route 4 for Subway Suminoekoen / for Deto Bus Terminal
     * Route 24 for Sumiyoshi Shako-mae / for Minami-Nagai
     * Route 40 for Sumiyoshi Shako-mae / for Deto Bus Terminal
  * Nagainishi Nichome (Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau)
     * Route 24 for Sumiyoshi Shako-mae / for Minami-Nagai
     * Route 40 for Sumiyoshi Shako-mae / for Deto Bus Terminal
  
  ## History
  
  * 18 July 1929 - Rinnanji-mae Station (臨南寺前駅) on Hanwa Electric Railway opened.
  * 1 December 1940 - Hanwa Electric Railway became the Yamanote Line of Nankai Railway.
  * 1 May 1944 - Yamanote Line was nationalized and became the Hanwa Line. Rinnanji-mae Station was renamed Nagai Station.
  * 1 July 1960- Nagai Station on the Osaka Municipal Subway Midōsuji Line opened.
  * 16 October 2004- Hanwa Line northbound station was elevated.
  * 21 May 2006 - Hanwa Line southbound station was elevated.
  * March 2018 - March 2018 - Station numbering was introduced to the Hanwa Line with Nagai being assigned station number JR-R24.
  