Higashiyama (Nara)

Weekday departures: 66/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 64/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:10 / 24:15 (00:15 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 6:00–7:00 (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.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Ikoma Line: one direction only

• Ikoma Line: Haginodai ⇄ Motosanjoguchi

Higashiyama Station opened on 21 September 1927 as Takeyama, a seasonal stop on the Shigi-Ikoma Electric Railway between Motosanjōguchi and Minami-Ikoma intended for autumn-foliage and mushroom-gathering excursions. It was promoted to a permanent station and renamed Higashiyama on 10 September 1951, and when Kintetsu absorbed the Shigi-Ikoma Electric Railway on 1 October 1964 the stop became part of the Kintetsu Ikoma Line. With suburban development continuing along the line, the station was relocated about 60 metres east on 29 January 1993 as part of a curve-straightening project, gaining a new steel-frame station building and two side platforms; the section between Higashiyama and Hagi-no-dai was double-tracked on 17 March of the same year. PiTaPa service began on 1 April 2007 and the station was made permanently unstaffed at an unspecified date on or after 1 October 2021.

Although the station now has two side platforms, track 1 dead-ends on the Ōji side, so trains in both directions normally use platform 2; platform 1 is reserved for the Ikoma-Higashiyama shuttle services and is closed when no shuttle is operating, making in-station passing impossible.