Wakasa-Wada

Weekday departures: 22/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 22/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:58 / 21:51

Busiest hour in the available data: 6:00–7:00 (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: Wakasa-Takahama ⇄ Wakasa-Hongo

Wakasa-Wada Station opened on 26 June 1925 as Wakasa-Wada Temporary Stop, a provisional halt on the government-built Obama Line between Wakasa-Hongō and Wakasa-Takahama. It was upgraded to a full station on 1 June 1934 and took on freight and parcel handling at that point. Both freight and parcel operations ceased on 15 March 1973, when JNR staff also stopped selling and checking tickets and the station became unstaffed; ticket sales were later resumed under a simplified agency (kan'i itaku) contract. On 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West at the JNR breakup. A new station building called Peaceful Wada (ピースフル和田), with an attached tourist-information centre, opened in March 2005.

The 2005 station building is called "Peaceful Wada" (ピースフル和田) and doubles as a local tourist-information centre. Wakasa-Wada is a simplified-agency (kan'i itaku) station managed by JR West's Kanazawa branch, with the ticket window entrusted to the local authority; that entrusted arrangement is due to be discontinued and the station left fully unstaffed, on a date that has not yet been decided.