Timetable information
Weekday departures: 198/day · Sat & holiday departures: 198/day
First / last departure (weekday): 5:39 / 24:04 (00:04 next day)
Busiest hour: 9:00–10:00 (14)
0:00 ─ 23:00
Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.
Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.
Adjacent stations
- Nara Line: Tofukuji ⇄ JR Fujinomori
Location
History
Inari Station opened on 18 August 1879 as the official Japanese Government Railways stop nearest the great Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine, on the original alignment of what would become the Tōkaidō Main Line. The 1921 opening of the new Higashiyama and Shin-Ōsakayama tunnel route between Baba and Kyoto stations rerouted the main line, and the section from Kyoto through Inari to a new Momoyama connection was transferred to the Nara Line, leaving Inari a Nara Line station from 1 August 1921 onward. The current concrete station building dates from March 1935. JR West succeeded JNR on 1 April 1987, and the JR-D03 station number was introduced in March 2018; from the March 2026 timetable revision Miyakoji rapid services stop here year-round.
Notes
The station preserves the oldest surviving lamp shed (rampu-goya) on the former Japanese National Railways network, a quasi-railway-monument relic of the original Tōkaidō Main Line that today houses equipment and artefacts relating to the station and the Nara Line within the station grounds.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: 切干大根 · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-18