History
Kyarabashi opened on 2 October 1918 as the terminus of the Nankai Takashinohama Line. The following year, on 25 October 1919, the line was extended to Takashinohama, leaving Kyarabashi as the line's only intermediate station. Wartime corporate amalgamation transferred it to Kintetsu on 1 June 1944, and a postwar route transfer placed it under Nankai Electric Railway on 1 June 1947. The station was elevated on 1 February 1970 and received the station code NK16-1 on 1 April 2012. Service was suspended from 22 May 2021 while grade-separation work was carried out between Hagoromo and Kyarabashi, with replacement buses operating during the closure. The station reopened on 6 April 2024 when the elevated track was inaugurated, and a new accessible toilet was put into service at the same time.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station takes its name from a granite bridge once spanning the nearby Ashida River, said to have used aloeswood (kyara) in its earlier timber form; the bridge was relocated to Takasago Park in 1988 and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2008.