Timetable information
Weekday departures: 67/day · Sat & holiday departures: 67/day
First / last departure (weekday): 6:17 / 24:27 (00:27 next day)
Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (6)
0:00 ─ 23:00
Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.
Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.
Adjacent stations
- Kintetsu Osaka Line: Hasedera ⇄ Sakurai (Nara)
Location
History
Yamato-Asakura Station opened on 3 November 1944 on Kintetsu's Osaka Line, between Sakurai and Hasedera, in present-day Sakurai, Nara Prefecture. A passing loop was installed on 15 March 1996, allowing the uneven daytime headways of down-direction (Nabari-bound) semi-express trains — which could vary by as much as 30 minutes despite three trains an hour — to be evened out to 20-minute intervals. PiTaPa support began on 1 April 2007. On 17 March 2018 the station was added to the express stopping pattern, and from that date most semi-express and sectional semi-express services that had run through to Haibara or Nabari began turning back here, making it a major operational pivot on the line.
Notes
On 10 October 2010 an Imperial special train using the leading 21020-series "Urban Liner next" carried the Emperor and Empress from this station to Osaka-Uehommachi following an Imperial visit to Nara.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: Original uploader was ja:User:城山 at ja.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-18