Umeda Station is a railway station in Kita-ku in the northern commercial center of Osaka, Japan. It is the busiest station in western Japan, serving 2,343,727 passengers daily in 2005. Umeda Station is served by the following railways: Hankyu Railway Hanshin Electric Railway Osaka Municipal Subway The freight terminal of Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight), closed in 2013, was also called Umeda.