Otani (Wakayama)

Weekday departures: 46/day · Sat & holiday departures: 46/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:38 / 23:46

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (5)

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: Myoji ⇄ Kaseda

Ōtani Station is a JR West Wakayama Line stop in Ōtani, Katsuragi, Ito District, Wakayama. It opened on 1 October 1952 as a new Japanese National Railways Wakayama Line station between Myōji and Kaseda. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR West, and ICOCA became usable on 14 March 2020. The station consists of a single side platform on the right side facing Wakayama, with no station building beyond direct platform access; because it is a single 'stick' track, both Wakayama-bound and Gojō-bound trains share the platform. Managed remotely from Hashimoto Station as an unstaffed stop, it has an automated ticket machine but no toilets.

Tickets issued at Ōtani once carried the prefix '(和)' — short for Wakayama — giving '(和)大谷' on the printout, to distinguish it from the same-kanji Ōtani Station on the Kesennuma Line in Miyagi.