Hirahata

Known weekday departures: 186/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 187/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:18 / 24:34 (00:34 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (11)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Kintetsu Kashihara Line: one direction only
• Kintetsu Tenri Line: one direction only

• Kintetsu Kashihara Line: Tsutsui (Nara) ⇄ Family-Koenmae
• Kintetsu Tenri Line: Nikaido

Hirahata Station, in Yamatokōriyama, Nara Prefecture, opened on 1 April 1922 when the Osaka Electric Tramway extended its Unebi Line from Kōriyama. The same year, the connecting Tenri line was re-gauged to 1435 mm and electrified to meet it. The Unebi Line was renamed the Kashihara Line in 1939, and successive 1941 and 1944 wartime mergers placed the station under the Kansai Express Railway and then the Kintetsu group it remains part of today. The station now serves as the Tenri Line terminus and the only passing point on the Kashihara Line, supporting express-local connections.

The station name reflects "Hira-hata," meaning the edge of the old Heguri district, where the village that gave the station its name once stood.