Funato (Wakayama)

Weekday departures: 53/day · Sat & holiday departures: 53/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:39 / 23:43

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• JR Wakayama Line: Iwade ⇄ Kii-Ogura

Funato Station opened on 1 January 1899 on the Kiwa Railway, in the city of Iwade, Wakayama Prefecture. A predecessor provisional stop a little west of the present site had operated from May 1898 as the line's temporary terminus. The Kiwa Railway was bought by the Kansai Railway in 1904 and nationalised in 1907, placing the station on what became the Wakayama Line in 1909. JR West has operated Funato since the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. The unattended station consists of two opposed side platforms connected by an open footbridge and sits 75.3 kilometres from the line's terminus at Ōji.

Funato appears by name in verse 49 of the fifth volume of Ōwada Takeki's 1900 Tetsudō Shōka ("Railway Song"), although the "Wakayama" station mentioned alongside it in the same verse refers to what is now Kiwa Station, not present-day Wakayama Station.