Station

Owada (Nara)

大輪田

Owada (Nara)
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Train service

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

First / last train (weekday): 5:05 / 23:31

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (4)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Ōwada Station opened on 26 April 1918 on the Yamato Railway when the line between Shin-Ōji and Tawaramoto (today’s Nishi-Tawaramoto) was inaugurated. The line was converted to standard gauge and electrified in June 1948. Following a 1961 merger the station passed to the Shigi-Ikoma Electric Railway, and a further merger on 1 October 1964 brought it under the Kintetsu Tawaramoto Line. PiTaPa service began on 1 April 2007, and the station became fully unstaffed on 1 October 2011. It now serves as a passing point on the Tawaramoto Line with an island platform sized for three-car trains.

Notes

Although the station was unstaffed in 2011 and its dedicated ticket office closed, trains still bear destination roll signs reading "Local | Ōwada" as a relic of the era when short-turn services terminated here.

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