Ikebe

Weekday departures: 47/day · Sat & holiday departures: 46/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:09 / 23:35

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (4)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Kintetsu Tawaramoto Line: Samitagawa ⇄ Hashio

Ikebe Station opened on 26 April 1918 with the inauguration of the Yamato Railway between Shin-Ōji and Tawaramoto (today’s Nishi-Tawaramoto). The line was converted to standard gauge and electrified in June 1948. The station passed to the Shigi-Ikoma Electric Railway in October 1961 and then to the Kintetsu Tawaramoto Line in October 1964 through successive mergers. PiTaPa service began on 1 April 2007, and the station became fully unstaffed on 1 October 2011, with the ticket gate closed and only simple IC card readers retained. It is a single-platform, single-track halt where Shin-Ōji-bound and Nishi-Tawaramoto-bound trains share the same platform.

Ikebe carries the secondary station name "Umamioka Park", reflecting its role as the gateway to Umamioka Prefectural Park — a complex of pre-historic burial mounds and seasonal flower beds on the south side of the station.