Gakuemmae (Nara)

Weekday departures: 233/day · Sat & holiday departures: 216/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:56 / 24:35 (00:35 next day)

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (15)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Kintetsu Nara Line: Ayameike ⇄ Tomio

Gakuen-mae Station opened on 6 March 1942 on Kansai Express Railway's Nara Line between Tomio and Ayameike. Trains initially stopped only at the school's morning and afternoon commute times. With the wartime company merger on 1 June 1944, the operator became Kinki Nippon Railway (Kintetsu). In 1969, magnetic-ticket automatic ticket gates - the type still used today - were trial-installed by Nippon Signal. On 1 April 1971, commuter-pass-only automatic gates entered service. From 7 November 1972, the station became a stop for the newly created 'rapid express' (the renamed free limited express); morning peak inbound rapid expresses skipped the station until the 1976 timetable revision, after which all rapid expresses stopped. From September 1973 the new fare-charging limited express began stopping. In September 1999, the station building was renovated coincident with the opening of the 'Le Ciel Gakuen-mae' station building, including a north-south free passage. PiTaPa service began on 1 April 2007. Platform 1 approach and departure announcements were updated on 20 February 2020.

Gakuen-mae Station was selected for the 1st 'Top 100 Stations of the Kinki Region', and its secondary station name is 'Tezukayama Gakuen-mae'. The surrounding hills were originally pine forest; Tezukayama Gakuin, based in Tezukayama in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, wanted to found a new boys' school just as Kintetsu was pushing development along its line, and when Tezukayama Gakuen's Tezukayama Junior High School opened in 1941 the station was provided next to it. Kintetsu then drove large-scale residential development of the area beginning in 1950 - the first of Kintetsu's railway-corridor housing developments. To control morning peak bus delays, the surrounding road network is subject to traffic restrictions on weekdays from 07:15 to 08:15: traverse roads near the station are one-way away from the station, and approach lanes on the Tomigaoka Nakamachi city road prohibit private cars (only motorcycles, light vehicles, buses, taxis, and permitted vehicles are admitted) - a measure unusually aggressive nationally, in response to chronic 15+ minute bus delays on the single-lane access road. The Kintetsu Keihanna Line's Gakken-Nara-Tomigaoka Station opened a short distance north, somewhat reducing private-car traffic.