History
Hirahata Station, in Yamatokōriyama, Nara Prefecture, opened on 1 April 1922 when the Osaka Electric Tramway extended its Unebi Line from Kōriyama. The same year, the connecting Tenri line was re-gauged to 1435 mm and electrified to meet it. The Unebi Line was renamed the Kashihara Line in 1939, and successive 1941 and 1944 wartime mergers placed the station under the Kansai Express Railway and then the Kintetsu group it remains part of today. The station now serves as the Tenri Line terminus and the only passing point on the Kashihara Line, supporting express-local connections.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station name reflects "Hira-hata," meaning the edge of the old Heguri district, where the village that gave the station its name once stood.