JR Goido

Weekday departures: 93/day · Sat & holiday departures: 93/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:25 / 23:44

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (7)

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: Kashiba ⇄ Takada (Nara)

JR Goidō Station began operation on 8 February 1940 as Goidō Signal Box, providing a crossing loop on the single-track Wakayama Line between Kashiba and Takada. The signal box was discontinued in July 1949 and reopened in December 1955. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West. Following a long campaign by local residents and Kashiba City, which contributed roughly two hundred million yen toward construction costs, the signal box was upgraded to a passenger station and opened under its present name on 13 March 2004; the JR prefix distinguishes it from Kintetsu's nearby Goidō Station.

This station recorded the most incidents within the JR West network of switches failing to change because a turtle had become lodged in the points; after the cause was identified, a U-shaped drainage channel was buried in front of the switch as a countermeasure to guide turtles underneath the tracks.