Takada (Nara)

Weekday departures: 93/day · Sat & holiday departures: 93/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:29 / 23:28

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (8)

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 Sakurai Line: Kanahashi
• JR Wakayama Line: JR Goido ⇄ Yamato-Shinjo

Takada Station opened on 1 March 1891 as a terminal of the original Osaka Railway. The line was extended to Sakurai in May 1893, and the Nanwa Railway began service south to Kuzu (now Yoshinoguchi) in May 1896, making the station a junction. The Kansai Railway absorbed the Osaka Railway in 1900 and the Nanwa Railway in 1904, then was nationalised in 1907. With the 1909 line-naming reform the Ōji-Wakayamashi section became the Wakayama Line and the Sakurai branch the Sakurai Line. A new elevated station building was completed on 1 August 1984, and the station passed to JR West at privatisation on 1 April 1987.

Because a Takada Station also exists on the JR Kyushu Nagasaki Main Line, this station is displayed on tickets and the like as "(Wa) Takada" to prevent confusion between the two.