History
Tarui Station opened on 9 November 1897 as part of the Nankai Railway's extension from Sano (now Izumi-Sano) to Ozaki, and has been on the Nankai Main Line ever since. The line was absorbed into Kinki Nippon Railway during the 1944 wartime merger and returned to the newly reorganised Nankai Electric Railway on 1 June 1947. Station numbering NK36 was introduced on 1 April 2012. The line south to Ozaki was closed when Typhoon Lan damaged the Onosato River bridge on 22 October 2017; trains resumed in single-track operation on 1 November of that year and full double-track service was restored on 23 November.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Tarui appears by name in verse 56 of the 1900 Railway Song (Kansai-Sangū-Nankai volume), which describes the spring tsutsuji blossoms on the nearby Tsutsuji-yama hill.