Kire

Known weekday departures: 76/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 72/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:42 / 23:14

Busiest hour (known departures): 8:00–9:00 (7)

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 19 October 2026 (retrieved in autumn 2026).

• Kishigawa Line: Idakiso ⇄ Okazaki-mae

Kire Station opened on 15 February 1916 on the Sandō Light Railway in what is now Kire, Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture. The line became the Sandō Railway in 1929, the Wakayama Railway in 1931, then merged with Wakayama Electric Tramway in 1957 and Nankai Electric Railway in 1961, after which it formed the Nankai Kishigawa Line. The station building was demolished in March 1998, leaving only a platform with a small canopy and a separate unisex pit toilet. On 1 April 2006 the line was transferred to the new Wakayama Electric Railway, becoming a Kishigawa Line station carrying station number 08. The station is unstaffed and has no ticket vending or fare gate, though additional staff ride from Wakayama to handle peak-hour fare collection owing to its busy ridership.

Kire is the only station on the Kishigawa Line without a station-name sign on the platform itself, retaining only the platform-entrance plaque.