Wakasa-Arita

Weekday departures: 24/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 24/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:18 / 22:31

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (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:

• JR Obama Line: one direction only

• JR Obama Line: Otaba ⇄ Kaminaka

Wakasa-Arita Station opened on 20 June 1964 as an unstaffed passenger-only halt added between Ōtoba and Kaminaka on the Japanese National Railways' Obama Line; it is the most recently opened station on the line. At the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West. A car park was added in 1992 and a barrier-free ramp and accessible toilet were installed around 2004.

The station is read "Wakasa-Arita," but the surrounding place-name is properly pronounced "Arida"; the official toponym and the station name diverge in voicing on the second character.