History
Heijō Station opened on 3 November 1928 as a stop on the Nara Electric Railway in Yamaryō-chō, Nara City. A 1963 merger transferred the line to Kintetsu, where it became the Kyoto Line; the station now carries the code B25. Its present configuration has two opposed side platforms with an underground concourse and one ticket gate, replacing an earlier surface station building on the Kyoto side that connected to the opposite platform by a level crossing. IC card acceptance (PiTaPa) began on 1 April 2007. The station serves the Nara Velodrome, with express trains making special stops on race days.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the Nara Velodrome holds its annual flagship races, normally non-stop limited-express trains make scheduled stops at Heijō; a separate temporary ticket gate was once set up on Platform 2 close to the velodrome entrance.