History
Tamamizu Station opened on 25 January 1896 as the terminus of the Nara Railway's extension from Momoyama; on 13 March of the same year the line was extended further to Kizu and Tamamizu became a through station. The Nara Railway merged into Kansai Railway on 7 February 1905, and was nationalised on 1 October 1907. With the line-name regulations of 12 October 1909 the station became part of the Nara Line. The station building was washed away in the Minamiyamashiro flood of 15 August 1953, then rebuilt on 31 March 1954. Freight was discontinued on 1 April 1972 and parcel handling on 20 October 1984. The station passed to JR West on 1 April 1987, automatic ticket gates entered service on 27 January 1999, and ICOCA support began on 1 November 2003. From the 15 March 2003 revision all rapid trains began stopping. A new bridge-style station building and east-west free passage opened on 15 December 2018 after about 1.66 billion yen of construction; the section between Tamamizu and Yamashiro-Taga was double-tracked on 6 December 2020, and the staffed ticket window closed on 30 November 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
On Platform 2 stands a roughly 6-ton boulder washed down from the upper Tamagawa during the 1953 Minamiyamashiro flood. When the bridge-style station was planned, residents collected about 6,000 signatures asking that it be preserved; the boulder was moved to the foot of the east stairs on the same platform, and the explanatory water-disaster memorial stone was reoriented so it can be read from outside the ticket gate.