is a railway station in Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is the western terminus of the high-speed Tokaido Shinkansen line from Tokyo, and the eastern terminus of the Sanyo Shinkansen. The lines are physically joined, and many trains offer through service.Shin-Osaka is about 3 km from the older Osaka Station. The new station was built in 1964 to avoid the engineering difficulties of running Shinkansen lines into the center of the city. The JR Kyoto Line and subway Midōsuji Line provide convenient connections to other stations around the city center.LinesJR Kyoto Line (Tokaido Main Line, West Japan Railway Company (JR West))Sanyō Shinkansen (JR West)Osaka Higashi Line (JR West, To be completed in 2018)Tōkaidō Shinkansen (Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central)Osaka Municipal Subway Midōsuji Line (M13)(and renovations performed on each newly vacated platform), with the westernmost platform to be used by services on the Osaka Higashi Line, scheduled to commence by the end of fiscal 2018. On the north side of the station, an additional Shinkansen platform serving Track 27 was located on March 16, 2013. (This northern area was originally reserved for a connection from Awaji Station and Jūsō Station by Hankyu Railway, but these plans were later cancelled and the space unused.)(train)(train)(train)(train)(train)(train)(in the paid area for the Shinkansen)