Editing Osaka Loop Line (section)

===Jōtō Line===
The Ōsaka to Tennōji via Kyōbashi section (the eastern half of Osaka Loop Line) was opened by the {{Nihongo|Osaka Railway|大阪鉄道|Osaka Tetsudō}} (which also opened the present [[Minami Osaka Line]] network) to link it to the Japanese Government Railway ('''JGR''') network in 1895. The line was opened in 2 stages: Tennōji – Tamatsukuri (2&nbsp;mi. 28 [[chain (unit)|chain]], ca. 3.8&nbsp;km) on 28 May; and Tamatsukuri – Umeda (4&nbsp;mi. 29 chain, ca. 7.0&nbsp;km) on 17 October.

Earlier, in 1889, the company opened its main line from {{STN|Kashiwara|x}} – Tennōji – {{Nihongo|Minatomachi|湊町||present {{STN|JR Namba|x}} }} which includes a short section of the Osaka Loop Line, being Tennōji – {{STN|Imamiya|x}}; Imamiya station itself, located between Tennōji and Minatomachi, was opened in 1890.

The Osaka Railway merged with the {{Nihongo|Kansai Railway|関西鉄道|Kansai Tetsudō|also read as Kansei or Kwansai}} in 1900, creating a single entity for the line from Tennōji Station to [[Japanese Government Railways|JGR]] Ōsaka Station. The Kansai Railway was acquired by the national government in 1907 under the 1906 [[Railway Nationalization Act]]. In 1909 the line was named the {{Nihongo|"Jōtō Line"|城東線|Jōtō sen}}.

In 1930, distrances were changed to metric, thus the distance changed from 6.6&nbsp;miles. to 10.7&nbsp;km. Electrification of the Jōtō Line was commissioned in 1933.