History
Ōwada Station opened on 26 April 1918 on the Yamato Railway when the line between Shin-Ōji and Tawaramoto (today’s Nishi-Tawaramoto) was inaugurated. The line was converted to standard gauge and electrified in June 1948. Following a 1961 merger the station passed to the Shigi-Ikoma Electric Railway, and a further merger on 1 October 1964 brought it under the Kintetsu Tawaramoto Line. PiTaPa service began on 1 April 2007, and the station became fully unstaffed on 1 October 2011. It now serves as a passing point on the Tawaramoto Line with an island platform sized for three-car trains.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the station was unstaffed in 2011 and its dedicated ticket office closed, trains still bear destination roll signs reading "Local | Ōwada" as a relic of the era when short-turn services terminated here.