History
Shinden Station opened on 25 January 1896 with the extension of the Nara Railway from Momoyama to Tamamizu, at Hirono-chō Higashiura, Uji, Kyoto. It passed to Kansai Railway through merger on 7 February 1905, was nationalised on 1 October 1907, and was assigned to the Nara Line under the line-naming regulations of 12 October 1909. Freight handling ended on 1 April 1978 and parcel handling on 20 October 1984. At the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West. Automated ticket gates entered service on 25 January 1999 and the Uji–Shinden section was double-tracked on 3 March 2001, with the station added to the rapid service's stop list on the same day. ICOCA IC card use began on 1 November 2003. Station numbering was assigned (JR-D11) on 17 March 2018, and the new east-side ticket gate and forecourt entered service from 14:00 on 28 May 2018. The Jōyō–Shinden section was double-tracked on 27 February 2022, the on-site ticket window closed on 30 September 2025, and Miyakoji Rapid services begin stopping from the 14 March 2026 timetable revision.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Shinden's name is read "Shinden", but is frequently mistaken for the more common reading "Nitta". To distinguish it from Nitta Station on the JR East Tōhoku Main Line, JR West prints "(奈)新田" on paper tickets. In front of the west exit stand a kobushi magnolia about 250 years old and a ginkgo about 150 years old, both selected for Uji's Hundred Notable Trees, though the magnolia died and was felled in 2021.