Kita-Uchi (Nara)

Weekday departures: 44/day · Sat & holiday departures: 44/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:56 / 23:53

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (4)

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: Yoshinoguchi ⇄ Gojo (Nara)

Kitauchi Station opened on 25 October 1896 in what is now Gojō, Nara Prefecture, when the Nanwa Railway extended its line from Kuzu (now Yoshinoguchi) through Gojō. The Kansai Railway absorbed the Nanwa Railway in 1904, and the line was nationalised in 1907 and assigned to the Wakayama Line in 1909. Freight handling ended in 1963 and the station became unstaffed on 20 October 1984. With the 1987 privatisation of the Japanese National Railways, the station passed to JR West. Kitauchi was famous as the last switchback station in the Kansai region until the manoeuvre was abolished on 18 March 2007, when a temporary single platform serving one track replaced the two facing platforms the switchback had used. The station has been recognised in the second "Kinki Top 100 Stations" selection.

Until March 2007, Kitauchi was the only switchback station remaining in Japan's Kansai region; the manoeuvre was abolished after two ATS-related incidents in 2006 raised safety concerns.