History
Tonoshō Station opened on 3 November 1928 as a stop on the Nara Electric Railway, between Momoyama-Goryō-mae and Saidaiji (now Yamato-Saidaiji). The name was taken from the then-existing Tonoshō Village. The Nara Electric Railway was absorbed into Kintetsu on 1 October 1963 and the route became the Kintetsu Kyoto Line. PiTaPa acceptance began on 1 April 2007. The station — two opposed side platforms with an underground concourse and ticket gates — was destaffed throughout operating hours on 10 January 2024 and is now run via remote management with ICOCA- and PiTaPa-compatible automatic gates and fare-adjustment machines.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.