History
Kami Station opened on 1 April 1909 as a railcar-only stop on the Railway Bureau's line between Yao and Hirano, becoming part of the Kansai Main Line later that year when the line names were established. The original surface station was rebuilt as an overhead-concourse facility on 6 March 1969. Operation passed to JR West on 1 April 1987 at privatisation, and the Yamatoji Line nickname was applied the following year. Automatic ticket gates entered service on 8 July 1998, ICOCA was accepted from 1 November 2003, and the management system was updated in 2009. Station numbering JR-Q23 was introduced on 17 March 2018. The Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed on 30 November 2018, replaced by a Midori no Kenbaiki Plus machine, which itself was removed on 31 October 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Boarding numbers dropped by 946 passengers a day in fiscal 2008 alone — the year Shin-Kami Station opened roughly 100 metres to the northeast on the Osaka Higashi Line.