Overview
The Chuo Line (C), opened in 1961, crosses the whole city from west to east, running 14 stations and about 17.9 km from Cosmosquare on the Nanko waterfront to Nagata. It is Osaka Metro's east-west trunk, and at its eastern end trains continue onto the Kintetsu Keihanna Line.
Along the route
Cosmosquare sits on the man-made island of Sakishima; from there the line calls at Osakako, a short walk from the Kaiyukan aquarium, and Asashiobashi before tunnelling under the Aji River into the city. It meets the Midosuji Line at Hommachi, then runs east via Tanimachi 4-chome and Morinomiya beside Osaka Castle Park to Fukaebashi, Takaida and Nagata.
Why play it
Fourteen stops that swap seaside for suburbs halfway through — and it opens on Cosmosquare, a katakana name whose long vowels sit oddly against the plain Japanese names that follow.
Line data
Everything below is derived from the station data the game runs on, so it always matches what you actually type on the 中央線 — all 14 stops of it.
- Operator
- Osaka Metro
- Line symbol
- C
- Stations
- 14
- Shape
- Terminal to terminal
- Termini
- コスモスクエア — 長田
How much typing is this?
Typing every station name on this line takes 140 keystrokes, an average of 10 per station. The longest name is 谷町四丁目 (tanimachi-yonchome) at 18 keystrokes; the shortest is 九条 (kujo) at 5. 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 0 end in ん, whose trailing n folds into whatever comes next rather than standing alone.
Where you can change trains
11 of the 14 stations on this line connect to another line in the game. Follow any symbol to that line's guide.
- コスモスクエアP 南港ポートタウン線
- 弁天町O 大阪環状線
- 九条HS 阪神なんば線
- 阿波座S 千日前線
- 本町M 御堂筋線Y 四つ橋線
- 堺筋本町K 堺筋線
- 谷町四丁目T 谷町線
- 森ノ宮N 長堀鶴見緑地線O 大阪環状線
- 緑橋I 今里筋線
- 高井田Q 大和路線
- 長田C けいはんな線
Every station on the line
All 14 stations in order, with the official station number, the name in kanji, the kana the typing is derived from, and its Hepburn romaji.
| # | No. | Station | Kana | Romaji |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C10 | コスモスクエア | こすもすくえあ | cosmosquare |
| 2 | C11 | 大阪港 | おおさかこう | osakako |
| 3 | C12 | 朝潮橋 | あさしおばし | asashiobashi |
| 4 | C13 | 弁天町 | べんてんちょう | bentencho |
| 5 | C14 | 九条 | くじょう | kujo |
| 6 | C15 | 阿波座 | あわざ | awaza |
| 7 | C16 | 本町 | ほんまち | hommachi |
| 8 | C17 | 堺筋本町 | さかいすじほんまち | sakaisuji-hommachi |
| 9 | C18 | 谷町四丁目 | たにまちよんちょうめ | tanimachi-yonchome |
| 10 | C19 | 森ノ宮 | もりのみや | morinomiya |
| 11 | C20 | 緑橋 | みどりばし | midoribashi |
| 12 | C21 | 深江橋 | ふかえばし | fukaebashi |
| 13 | C22 | 高井田 | たかいだ | takaida |
| 14 | C23 | 長田 | ながた | nagata |