History
Shin-Hōsono Station opened on 3 November 1928 as a stop on the Nara Electric Railway between Momoyama-Goryōmae and Saidaiji (now Yamato-Saidaiji). The Nara Electric Railway was absorbed into Kintetsu on 1 October 1963, making the station part of the Kintetsu Kyoto Line. The current elevated station building was completed on 14 September 1994, with a footbridge link to the adjacent JR Hōsono Station added on the same day. Express services began stopping from the 15 March 2000 timetable revision, reflecting the station's growing role as one of the hubs of the Kansai Science City. PiTaPa IC fare collection began on 1 April 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Shin-Hōsono and the JR-operated Hōsono Station next door share a single elevated walkway, but only Shin-Hōsono is announced by name as a transfer point in on-board JR conductor announcements.