History
Oji Station opened on 27 December 1890 as a general station on Osaka Railway, then the line's terminus from the Nara side. The route was extended westward to Takada on 1 March 1891, making Oji a through station. After successive transfers to Kansai Railway in 1900 and government railways in 1907, the 1909 line-naming order placed Oji at the junction of the Kansai Main Line and Wakayama Line. The station was hit by an air raid on 24 July 1945. The present overhead-concourse building opened on 26 January 1978. JR West inherited the station at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and ICOCA acceptance began in November 2003. Station numbering JR-Q31 was introduced in March 2018, and the new Rakuraku Yamato limited express began calling there in March 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
On 2 August 1982 the heavily flooded Katsuge tributary of the Yamato River inundated the carriage sidings at Oji; all 60 stranded class 101 cars were written off as a result.