History
Kyuhoji Station opened on 1 December 1910 as a railcar-only stop on the Railway Bureau's Kansai Main Line between Yao and Kami. The site grew alongside the Ryuge Yard, a major Osaka-area freight marshalling complex until its 1986 closure. Through the JNR era most express services bypassed Kyuhoji until the 1973 electrification brought regular electric trains. JR West inherited the station on 1 April 1987. A new overhead concourse opened on 28 July 1997, when the down line was relocated about 150 metres north to add an Osaka-bound passing track; the Nara-bound passing track followed in March 1998. Kyuhoji became a Yamatoji Rapid stop on 3 March 2001 and an Osaka Higashi Line transfer point on 15 March 2008. Station numbering JR-Q24 and JR-F15 was introduced on 17 March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until 1973 most Kansai Main Line trains roared straight through Kyuhoji without stopping, because the line was not yet electrified and only a handful of short-distance shuttles called there.