History
Kusurimizu Station (F49) is on Kintetsu's Yoshino Line in Kusurimizu, Ōyodo, Yoshino District, Nara. It opened on 7 February 1924 as a new station between Yoshinoguchi and Shimoichiguchi on the Yoshino Railway. The Yoshino Railway was absorbed into the Osaka Electric Tramway on 1 August 1929, becoming the OET Yoshino Line, then passed to Kansai Express Railway on 15 March 1941 (with the OET–Sangū Express merger) and to Kintetsu on 1 June 1944 via wartime consolidation. PiTaPa was introduced on 1 April 2007. The station has a single side platform on the right side facing Yoshino, set on a hillside and reached by stairs — there is no station building and passengers go directly onto the platform from the stairs. Because the layout is a single 'stick' track, both Yoshino-bound and Ōsaka-Abenobashi-bound trains use the same platform.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Despite being on the Yoshino Line, Kusurimizu sits within walking distance of JR West's parallel Wakayama Line — but the Wakayama Line has no station here. The station name comes from the Yakusui Daishi temple just outside, and the daily passenger count is the lowest of any conventional-rail station in Nara Prefecture (the lowest among JR Wakayama Line stations being Wakigami).