History
Shin-Ōji Station is part of a major transfer complex in Ōji Town, Nara Prefecture, where JR West and Kintetsu operate adjacent stations. The Kintetsu side, called Shin-Ōji and opened on 26 April 1918 as the western terminus of the Yamato Railway (today's Tawaramoto Line), sits a short walk from JR Ōji Station, the Nara Prefecture station originally opened in December 1890 by the first Osaka Railway and renamed Ōji on the same date. The Kintetsu Ikoma Line's Ōji Station opened on 16 May 1922 as part of the Shigi-Ikoma Electric Railway. Both Kintetsu lines reached their current operator through the 1964 merger that placed them under Kintetsu. PiTaPa became usable on 1 April 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The two Kintetsu stations remain physically separate despite being a few hundred metres apart, a legacy of their having been built by different pre-merger companies.