Nukata

Weekday departures: 100/day · Sat & holiday departures: 96/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:41 / 24:21 (00:21 next day)

Busiest hour: 10:00–11:00 (7)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Kintetsu Nara Line: Ishikiri ⇄ Hiraoka (Osaka)

Nukata Station opened on 13 July 1920 as a new station of the Osaka Electric Tramway between Hiraoka and Ishikiri. With the 15 March 1941 merger with Sangu Express Electric Railway, the station became part of Kansai Express Railway. The wartime company merger on 1 June 1944 made it a Kinki Nippon Railway (Kintetsu) station. Platform extension work completed on 19 March 1992 enabled six-car formations, and the number of midday local stops doubled from three per hour to six. From 21 March 2006, newly created section-suburban-express trains began stopping here, giving a midday pattern of three locals and three section-suburban-express per hour. PiTaPa service began on 1 April 2007. On 10 November 2024 the station became completely unstaffed.

Nukata Station sits on a gradient of over 30 per mille on the mid-slopes of Mount Ikoma, with residential areas spreading up the slopes east and west; the view from the train window down to Ishikiri is celebrated for its night-time panorama. The station has two side platforms at six-car effective length, but no in-station footbridge or underpass between platforms, so each side has its own ticket gate. Toilets are only inside the Platform 1 gate. The pre-war Shijōnawate Line - planned to start at Sakuranomiya Station on the Osaka Loop Line and terminate at this station - had partial construction begun but was never completed. Routes near the station include National Route 308 (the Kuragari-goe Nara highway) and the historic Kuragari Pass.