Hanshin is a good example of a Japanese railway-terminal department store, originally built in 1933 at the urban end of the private Hanshin railway as a destination for riders living along the train line. The Hanshin Tigers baseball team is also connected with the group, and you can find a Hanshin Tigers shop up on the eighth floor.

Far more important, though, is the large and busy food floor down on the basement level, which is connected to the vast underground shopping plazas running between Umeda's several train and subway stations.