Narayama

Weekday departures: 161/day · Sat & holiday departures: 161/day

First / last departure (weekday): 4:52 / 24:41 (00:41 next day)

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (13)

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 Yamatoji Line: Kizu (Kyoto) ⇄ Nara

Narayama Station was built as a petitioned station with the full 300 million yen construction cost funded locally and opened on 1 December 1985 by Japanese National Railways on the Kansai Main Line between Kizu and Nara. JR West took over at the 1987 privatisation, and the Yamatoji Line nickname was adopted on 13 March 1988. Automatic ticket gates were installed on 30 July 1998, ICOCA became usable on 1 November 2003, and station numbering JR-Q37 / JR-D20 was introduced on 17 March 2018. From 14 March 2026 the abolition of the Nara Line's Rapid category makes the station a stop for every remaining Rapid service, although the Miyakoji Rapid continues to pass through, and the station becomes unstaffed throughout the day from 1 April 2026.

Narayama is an unstaffed station managed from Nara Station; its Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed on 12 July 2016 and a Midori no Kenbaiki Plus ticket machine took over the following day. It is also the only station on the Yamatoji Line whose automated announcements were left unchanged when the Osaka Loop and Yamatoji Line operations management system was introduced on 4 October 2009, and the only one not to receive the line's approach melody.