Overview
The Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line (N) opened in 1990 for the international garden and greenery expo held at Tsurumi-ryokuchi. It was Japan's first linear-motor "mini subway", with a tunnel and trains a size smaller than usual, and covers 17 stations and about 15 km from Taisho to Kadoma-minami.
Along the route
Leaving Taisho, it quickly reaches Dome-mae Chiyozaki beneath Kyocera Dome Osaka, then heads east under Nagahori-dori through Shinsaibashi, Nagahoribashi and Matsuyamachi to Tamatsukuri and Morinomiya, close by Osaka Castle. From Osaka Business Park and Kyobashi it swings north to the old expo site at Tsurumi-ryokuchi and Kadoma-minami.
Why play it
A middle-distance run of 17 stops that bends right around the city, trading downtown for suburban parkland — and Osaka Business Park drops a long katakana name into the middle just as your rhythm settles.
Line data
Everything below is derived from the station data the game runs on, so it always matches what you actually type on the 長堀鶴見緑地線 — all 17 stops of it.
- Operator
- Osaka Metro
- Line symbol
- N
- Stations
- 17
- Shape
- Terminal to terminal
- Termini
- 大正 — 門真南
How much typing is this?
Typing every station name on this line takes 220 keystrokes, an average of 12.9 per station. The longest name is 谷町六丁目 (tanimachi-rokuchome) at 19 keystrokes; the shortest is 大正 (taisho) at 7. 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; 5 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
9 of the 17 stations on this line connect to another line in the game. Follow any symbol to that line's guide.
- 大正O 大阪環状線
- 西長堀S 千日前線
- 心斎橋M 御堂筋線
- 長堀橋K 堺筋線
- 谷町六丁目T 谷町線
- 玉造O 大阪環状線
- 森ノ宮C 中央線O 大阪環状線
- 京橋O 大阪環状線H JR東西線H 片町線KH 京阪本線
- 蒲生四丁目I 今里筋線
Every station on the line
All 17 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 | N11 | 大正 | たいしょう | taisho |
| 2 | N12 | ドーム前千代崎 | どーむまえちよざき | dome-mae-chiyozaki |
| 3 | N13 | 西長堀 | にしながほり | nishinagahori |
| 4 | N14 | 西大橋 | にしおおはし | nishiohashi |
| 5 | N15 | 心斎橋 | しんさいばし | shinsaibashi |
| 6 | N16 | 長堀橋 | ながほりばし | nagahoribashi |
| 7 | N17 | 松屋町 | まつやまち | matsuyamachi |
| 8 | N18 | 谷町六丁目 | たにまちろくちょうめ | tanimachi-rokuchome |
| 9 | N19 | 玉造 | たまつくり | tamatsukuri |
| 10 | N20 | 森ノ宮 | もりのみや | morinomiya |
| 11 | N21 | 大阪ビジネスパーク | おおさかびじねすぱーく | osaka-business-park |
| 12 | N22 | 京橋 | きょうばし | kyobashi |
| 13 | N23 | 蒲生四丁目 | がもうよんちょうめ | gamo-yonchome |
| 14 | N24 | 今福鶴見 | いまふくつるみ | imafuku-tsurumi |
| 15 | N25 | 横堤 | よこづつみ | yokozutsumi |
| 16 | N26 | 鶴見緑地 | つるみりょくち | tsurumi-ryokuchi |
| 17 | N27 | 門真南 | かどまみなみ | kadoma-minami |
