Station

Kii-Kamiya

紀伊神谷

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Kii-Kamiya
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Timetable information

Weekday departures: 33/day · Sat & holiday departures: 28/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:44 / 21:50

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (3)


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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Kii-Kamiya Station opened on 18 June 1928 as Kamiya Station, the mountain-side terminus of the Kōyasan Electric Railway. It became an intermediate stop on 21 February 1929 when the line was extended one stop further to Gokurakubashi, and was renamed Kii-Kamiya on 1 March 1930. A 1947 corporate rename placed the station under Nankai Electric Railway, where it remains. Located in Kōya, Wakayama Prefecture, at an elevation of 473 metres, the unstaffed island-platform stop is widely described as a hikyō-eki — an unusually remote, isolated station, rare for a major private railway. Service was suspended between October 2017 and March 2018 by typhoon-related track damage at Kamikosawa.

Notes

On 17 March 1937 a runaway electric train approaching from Gokurakubashi was deliberately derailed by a Kii-Kamiya station attendant using a switch lever; two passengers died and twelve were injured, but the train was prevented from plunging into the valley.

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