History
Kujō Station (Nara) opened on 1 April 1921 as a stop on the Osaka Electric Tramway Unebi Line — the present Kintetsu Kashihara Line — when the section between Saidaiji (now Yamato-Saidaiji) and Kōriyama (now Kintetsu-Kōriyama) was inaugurated. Through a 1941 merger with Sangū Express Railway it passed to the Kansai Express Railway, and in 1944 a further merger created Kintetsu Railway. The station building was moved underground on 1 September 2002, PiTaPa service began on 1 April 2007, and the station was made permanently unstaffed at an unspecified date on or after 1 October 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although the concourse and ticket gates were moved underground in 2002, the platforms themselves remain at grade — the station is built into a cut, with east and west entrances at ground level descending to the basement concourse before passengers come back up to the platforms.