Kii-Tanabe

Weekday departures: 56/day · Sat & holiday departures: 56/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:26 / 22:43

Busiest hour: 13:00–14:00 (5)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Kisei Line: Haya ⇄ Kii-Shinjo

Kii-Tanabe Station opened on 8 November 1932 on the Kisei West Line in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, and became the main station of the city. On 25 July 1945 a carrier-aircraft attack on the station damaged seven locomotives, and a strafing attack three days later killed one man; after the war the station was important as the starting point of repatriation trains carrying returnees from overseas, chiefly from Taiwan. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it came under JR West, and on 17 December 2016 ICOCA card support was added. The station consists of one side platform and one island platform serving three tracks, with a Midori no Madoguchi ticket office. A new three-storey station building incorporating tsunami-refuge capacity for around 300 people opened in 2019.

Until 2010 the last arrival at Kii-Tanabe was at 1:47 a.m.—then the latest scheduled non-night-train arrival of any station in Japan, a remnant of the old Tennōji–Shingū sleeper service.