Umeyashiki (Nara)

Weekday departures: 13/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 13/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 9:11 / 17:11

Busiest hour in the available data: 9:00–10:00 (2)

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 incomplete:

• Ikoma Cable Line: one direction only

• Ikoma Cable Line: Hozanji ⇄ Kasumigaoka (Nara)

Umeyashiki Station opened on 27 March 1929 as a station of the Osaka Electric Tramway (later Kintetsu). On 11 February 1944 the Sanjō Line (山上線) was designated a non-essential wartime line and service was suspended; the station reopened for service on 1 August 1945. In August 2010, the platform shelter was removed and station-building work completed.

Umeyashiki is a single-track station with one side platform on Kintetsu's Ikoma Cable Line (Sanjō Line, Y19). It is unstaffed and has no automatic ticket gates or ticket machines - illumination is by three LED lamps on the platform and LED fluorescent in the station building. Because the line is a funicular operating with a single shared track, both Ikomasanjō- and Hozanji-bound cars use the same platform. The station exists primarily to serve worshippers visiting Hōzanji and its inner sanctum (奥の院); it is actually closer to Hōzanji than Hozanji Station, and although the fare and frequency from Hozanji Station are better, alighting at Umeyashiki and walking down spares visitors the climb up the temple's approach stairs from the lower station. Outside the New Year and seasonal pilgrimage periods, daily boarding is minimal. The Chokkō (direct service - operated during Mount Ikoma Amusement Park night service and Golden Week) passes through. A type-3 level crossing in front of the station leads to the inner sanctum approach.