Wakasa-Wada

Weekday departures: 22/day · Sat & holiday departures: 22/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:58 / 21:51

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

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

• JR Obama Line: Wakasa-Takahama ⇄ Wakasa-Hongo

Wakasa-Wada Station opened on 26 June 1925 as Wakasa-Wada Temporary Stop, a flag-stop on the government-built Obama Line between Wakasa-Hongō and Wakasa-Takahama. It was upgraded to a full station on 1 June 1934 and added freight and parcel handling at that point. Both freight and parcel operations ceased on 15 March 1973, when the station was also destaffed (a simple-委託 agent then took over ticket sales). On 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West at the JNR breakup. A new station building called Peaceful Wada (ピースフル和田), with an attached tourist-information centre, opened in March 2005.

The 2005 station building is called "Peaceful Wada" (ピースフル和田) and doubles as a local tourist-information centre. JR West has announced that, with the 2030 phase-out of the company's manned ticket booths, the simple-委託 (entrusted) ticket sales arrangement here will end and the station will be left fully unstaffed.