Station

Kintetsu Nara

近鉄奈良

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Kintetsu Nara
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Timetable information

Weekday departures: 2/day · Sat & holiday departures: 2/day

First / last departure (weekday): 9:52 / 17:36

Busiest hour: 9:00–10:00 (1)


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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Kintetsu Nara Station opened on 30 April 1914 as the eastern terminus of the Osaka Electric Tramway, initially called Nara Station. It served as a surface terminus on a street-running alignment reached by interurban trams from Osaka, and was renamed in turn Daiki Nara (1928), Kankyu Nara (1941), Kinki Nippon Nara (1944), and finally Kintetsu Nara on 1 March 1970. In December 1969, ahead of the 1970 Osaka Expo, the station and the approach from Aburasaka were moved underground; the surface site was redeveloped as the Nara Kintetsu Building. The station is the terminus of the Nara Line and the primary city-centre access point for Nara, served by limited expresses and expresses from Kyoto and Ōsaka Namba.

Notes

The four-track underground terminus is the only underground railway station in Nara Prefecture.

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