History
Suda Station opened on 11 April 1898 on the Kiwa Railway, serving what is today the Wakayama Line, 41.1 km from the Oji terminus. It took its present name on 1 January 1903. The Kiwa Railway was acquired by the Kansai Railway in 1904, which was itself nationalised in 1907, placing the station under direct state control. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West. The station today has two opposed side platforms linked by a footbridge and is unattended. A new station building entered service in September 2022, replacing a 1916 wooden structure that was subsequently demolished after a farewell event for residents.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Pupils and alumni of the local Suda Junior High School art club painted murals on the old wooden station building in 2011, completing the work in December of that year.