History
Narayama Station was built as a petitioned station with the full 300 million yen construction cost funded locally and opened on 1 December 1985 by Japanese National Railways on the Kansai Main Line between Kizu and Nara. JR West took over at the 1987 privatisation, and the Yamatoji Line nickname was adopted on 13 March 1988. Automatic ticket gates were installed on 30 July 1998, ICOCA became usable on 1 November 2003, and station numbering JR-Q37 / JR-D20 was introduced on 17 March 2018. From 14 March 2026 every remaining Nara Line rapid service stops here following the discontinuation of the line's standard Rapid category, and the station becomes unstaffed throughout the day from 1 April 2026.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The chūō shinkansen route plan lists the area around Narayama as one of the candidate sites for the as-yet provisionally named Nara Prefecture station.