History
The station opened as Shimoda Station on 1 July 1927, when the Osaka Electric Tramway Yagi Line (the present Kintetsu Osaka Line) was extended between Onji and Takada (now Yamato-Takada). After Kansai Express Railway absorbed Sangu Express Railway in March 1941, and then merged with Nankai Railway in June 1944 to form Kintetsu, the stop was renamed Kinki Nippon Shimoda. Its current name dates from 1 March 1970. PiTaPa support began on 1 April 2007, and the station became unattended on 7 January 2022. It sits 25.7 km from Osaka Uehommachi on the Osaka Line and carries the station number D22.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The station keeps the "Kintetsu" prefix because until 12 March 2004 the nearby JR West station on the Wakayama Line, only five minutes' walk to the north, also called itself Shimoda Station.