Uji (JR West)

Weekday departures: 192/day · Sat & holiday departures: 192/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:23 / 24:10 (00:10 next day)

Busiest hour: 16:00–17:00 (14)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Nara Line: Obaku ⇄ JR-Ogura

Uji Station opened on 25 January 1896 when the privately owned Nara Railway extended its Momoyama–Tamamizu section through Uji. The line was absorbed by the Kansai Railway on 7 February 1905 and nationalised on 1 October 1907. A first rebuilt station building dated from 1935; the JNR express Kinokawa was withdrawn on 1 October 1984, briefly leaving Uji with no express-class trains calling. JR West succeeded JNR on 1 April 1987 and introduced Nara Line rapid services in March 1991. The current station, with two island platforms serving four tracks and an overhead station building modelled on the Phoenix Hall of nearby Byōdō-in, entered service on 7 August 2000, and station numbering JR-D09 was added in March 2018. The Uji–Ōbaku double-tracking was completed on 18 December 2022.

Uji acts as the operational hub of the Nara Line: a station master is permanently posted here, and the station administers every intermediate stop between Kamikoma and Tofukuji.