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03/27/2024

Kita-Osaka Kyuko Line Extension
A new station has been built at Nanophoton’s home territory!

Finally, on March 23, the Kita-Osaka Kyuko Line was extended and a new station, Minoh-Semba handai-mae Station, opened in Semba, Minoh City, where Nanophoton is located ! As a result, visitors used to walk or take a bus from Senri-Chuo Station to Nanophoton, but now it only takes 5 minutes to walk from the new station. This time, I took the Kita-Osaka Kyuko Line, which has been extended to the new station, and I would like to report on the experience. (Newsletter editor: Ryo Harada)　

New station “Minoh-Semba handai-mae Station”

The iconic eight-piece roof. Rain is kept away from the escalators from all directions.
Atrium space. Looking from the basement to the ground, the diffused light through the membrane of the roof and the natural light leaking through the overlapping layers are beautiful.

Minoh-Semba handai-mae Station has three underground floors and two above-ground floors, and the huge atrium space leading from the basement to the ground is impressive. The large escalator with a height difference of 16 meters is an impressive sight. The basement is also equipped with mechanical bicycle parking. There were also conference rooms, offices, and galleries.

The station was also equipped with a nursing room.
The station is also equipped with movable platform fences, making the premises safe.

5 minutes walk from “Minoh-Semba handai-mae Station” to Nanophoton!

With the opening of Minoh-Semba handai-mae Station, access to Nanophoton has improved dramatically. It takes 22 minutes from Umeda Station and 15 minutes from Shin-Osaka Station to get to Minoh-Semba handai-mae Station.

Previously, it took about 15 minutes from Senri-Chuo Station by bus or on foot, but now it takes only about 5 minutes from the new station to Nanophoton on foot.

Cross the pedestrian deck just outside the station to the west, walk south, and you will see a Family Mart, and the building next to it.

Nanophoton has excellent accessibility. We invite you to visit our Osaka showroom and touch Nanophoton’s cutting-edge microscopes.

In addition

The terminal station, Minoh-kayano Station.

“Minoh-kayano Station” has also opened as the next station after “Minoh-Semba handai-mae Station”.
New restaurants and other attractive stores are opening one after another in the vicinity of both stations, so please come to Minoh City for fun.

P.S.: At Minoh-kayano Station, I recommend “Minamen Cafe”, the next brand store of “Human beings everybody noodles”, and “Nigiritate”, a hoka hoka rice ball made on the spot at the first store in Kansai.
At Minoh-Semba handai-mae Station, it is “CaNCaRaCaN Cafe”, a stylish and healthy one-plate restaurant with plenty of vegetables, and “Taveruna Pecorino”, a Japanese-Italian restaurant with delicious fish.

（Translated by DeepL）