Kinokawa

Known weekday departures: 234/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 224/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:08 / 24:40 (00:40 next day)

Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (16)

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).

• Nankai Kada Line: Higashi-Matsue (Wakayama)
• Nankai Main Line: Wakayamadaigakumae ⇄ Wakayamashi

Kinokawa Station originated on 22 October 1898, when the Nankai Railway opened Wakayama-Kitaguchi Station as the Wakayama-side terminus of its extension from Ozaki. Following the completion of the Kinokawa rail bridge, the line was extended to Wakayamashi Station on 21 March 1903; Wakayama-Kitaguchi was closed at the same time and the present Kinokawa Station opened in its place. The section from Kinokawa to Higashi-Matsue, then part of the Matsue Line and today part of the 9.6 km Kada Line, opened on 1 October 1944, and the station — a Kintetsu station since the merger of 1 June 1944 — passed to Nankai Electric Railway when the line was transferred to that company on 1 June 1947. Station numbering NK44 was introduced on 1 April 2012. The station has two opposed side platforms, and the Nankai Main Line and Kada Line diverge by means of a flat junction at the Namba end of the platforms.

The original 1898 station, named Wakayama-Kitaguchi, was the Wakayama-side terminus of the Nankai Railway's main line and is mentioned in the fifth volume of the Tetsudō Shōka ("Railway Song"), covering Kansai, Sangū and Nankai, whose lyrics were written in 1900.