Station

Koyashita

高野下

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Koyashita
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Timetable information

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

First / last departure (weekday): 6:06 / 22:12

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

Kōyashita Station opened on 30 July 1925 as Kōyasan Station when the Nankai Railway extended its line from Kudoyama in what is now Kudoyama, Wakayama Prefecture. It was renamed to its present name on 11 September of the same year, originally serving as the railhead for pilgrims who continued by road bus toward Mount Kōya. The Kōyasan Electric Railway opened the next segment, from Kōyashita to Kamiya Station (now Kii-Kamiya), in 1928, and through running with the Nankai Kōya Line began in 1932. Wartime consolidation merged Nankai into Kintetsu in 1944, and the present Nankai Electric Railway re-emerged in 1947. The station became permanently unstaffed on 1 April 2013, and a station-building hotel opened in 2019.

Notes

In 2009 the station and several neighbouring facilities along the Kōya Line were designated Modernization Industrial Heritage of Japan for their role in pilgrimage to Mount Kōya, and since 2010 the platform has hosted a permanent open-air display of vintage rails from five Japanese and overseas makers, together with dog spikes and company emblems taken from rolling stock.

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