Oji (Nara)

Weekday departures: 274/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 274/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:36 / 24:31 (00:31 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (21)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: JR Yamatoji Line, JR Wakayama Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Ikoma Line: one direction only

• Ikoma Line: Shigisanshita
• JR Yamatoji Line: Horyuji ⇄ Sango (Nara)
• JR Wakayama Line: Hatakeda

Ōji Station opened on 27 December 1890 as a general station on the Osaka Railway, then the line's terminus from the Nara side. It became a through station on 8 February 1891, when the Osaka Railway extended its line beyond Ōji to the temporary Inabayama halt, and the company opened a further extension from Ōji to Takada on 1 March 1891. After successive transfers to Kansai Railway in 1900 and government railways in 1907, the 1909 line-naming order placed Ōji at the junction of the Kansai Main Line and Wakayama Line. The station was hit by an air raid on 24 July 1945. The present overhead-concourse building opened on 26 January 1978. JR West inherited the station at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and ICOCA acceptance began in November 2003. Station numbering JR-Q31 was introduced in March 2018, and the new Rakuraku Yamato limited express began calling there in March 2024.

On 2 August 1982 the heavily flooded Katsuge tributary of the Yamato River inundated the carriage sidings at Oji; all 60 stranded class 101 cars were written off as a result.