Overview

The Osaka Higashi Line (F) runs 15 stations from Osaka to Kyuhoji, almost all of it a conversion of the Joto Freight Line — a goods-only bypass around the east side of the city that carried no scheduled passengers for decades. Service opened in stages: Hanaten to Kyuhoji in 2008, Shin-Osaka to Hanaten in 2019, and in March 2023 trains reached the new underground Umekita platforms at Osaka Station, now F01.

Along the route

Out of those Umekita platforms it calls at Shin-Osaka for the Shinkansen, then works south along the city's eastern edge via Minami-Suita, JR-Awaji, Shirokita-Koendori and JR-Noe, meeting the Katamachi Line at Shigino and Hanaten. Takaida-Chuo, JR-Kawachi-Eiwa, JR-Shuntokumichi and JR-Nagase follow before Kyuhoji and the Yamatoji Line. Five stops carry a "JR" prefix to tell them apart from private-railway namesakes.

Why play it

A third of the stations begin with the same jr- run-up, making this the game's best drill in rhythm and prefixes. Fifteen stops is a tidy length for chasing a personal best.

Line data

Everything below is derived from the station data the game runs on, so it always matches what you actually type on the おおさか東線 — all 15 stops of it.

Operator
JR West
Line symbol
F
Stations
15
Shape
Terminal to terminal
Termini
大阪 — 久宝寺

How much typing is this?

Typing every station name on this line takes 179 keystrokes, an average of 11.9 per station. The longest name is JR俊徳道 (jr-shuntokumichi) at 20 keystrokes; the shortest is 大阪 (osaka) at 6. Those counts come from running each name's kana through the game's own romaji engine, so they are what your fingers actually do — not the length of the printed spelling.

Along the way: 0 names contain a small っ, which doubles the next consonant; 3 contain a small ゃ, ゅ or ょ, where the engine accepts both the Hepburn and Kunrei spellings (sha or sya, shu or syu); and 1 end in ん, whose trailing n folds into whatever comes next rather than standing alone.

Where you can change trains

5 of the 15 stations on this line connect to another line in the game. Follow any symbol to that line's guide.

Every station on the line

All 15 stations in order, with the official station number, the name in kanji, the kana the typing is derived from, and its Hepburn romaji.

#No.StationKanaRomaji
1F01大阪おおさかosaka
2F02新大阪しんおおさかshin-osaka
3F03南吹田みなみすいたminami-suita
4F04JR淡路じぇいあーるあわじjr-awaji
5F05城北公園通しろきたこうえんどおりshirokita-koendori
6F06JR野江じぇいあーるのえjr-noe
7F07鴫野しぎのshigino
8F08放出はなてんhanaten
9F09高井田中央たかいだちゅうおうtakaida-chuo
10F10JR河内永和じぇいあーるかわちえいわjr-kawachi-eiwa
11F11JR俊徳道じぇいあーるしゅんとくみちjr-shuntokumichi
12F12JR長瀬じぇいあーるながせjr-nagase
13F13衣摺加美北きずりかみきたkizuri-kamikita
14F14新加美しんかみshin-kami
15F15久宝寺きゅうほうじkyuhoji