History
Shinden Station opened on 25 January 1896 with the extension of the Nara Railway from Momoyama to Tamamizu, at Hirono-chō Higashiura, Uji, Kyoto. It passed to Kansai Railway through merger on 7 February 1905, was nationalised on 1 October 1907, and was assigned to the Nara Line under the line-naming regulations of 12 October 1909. Freight handling ended on 1 April 1978 and parcel handling on 20 October 1984. At the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West. Automated ticket gates entered service on 25 January 1999 and the Uji–Shinden section was double-tracked on 3 March 2001, with the station added to the rapid service's stop list on the same day. ICOCA IC card use began on 1 November 2003. Station numbering was assigned (JR-D11) on 17 March 2018, and the new east-side ticket gate and forecourt entered service from 14:00 on 28 May 2018. The Jōyō–Shinden section was double-tracked on 27 February 2022, the on-site ticket window closed on 30 September 2025, and Miyakoji Rapid services begin stopping from the 14 March 2026 timetable revision.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Shinden's name is read "Shinden", but is frequently mistaken for the more common reading "Nitta" — to distinguish it from Nitta Station on the JR East Tōhoku Main Line, JR West prints "(奈)新田" on paper tickets. In front of the west exit stand a kobushi magnolia about 250 years old and a ginkgo about 150 years old, both selected for Uji's Hundred Notable Trees, though the magnolia died and was felled in 2021.