History
Kii-Shimizu Station opened on 15 March 1925 on the Nankai Railway as Shimizu Station, an intermediate stop between the Tsuma signal box and Kamuro along the line leading up toward Mount Kōya. It was renamed Kii-Shimizu just twelve days later, on 27 March 1925. Wartime consolidation brought it into the Kintetsu group on 1 June 1944; the line was transferred back to a reconstituted Nankai Electric Railway on 1 June 1947. On 6 February 2009 the station was designated part of the Heritage of Industrial Modernization for Mount Kōya pilgrimage facilities, and on 1 April 2010 it was de-staffed. A workshop for kishū-herazao bamboo fishing rods opened in part of the disused staff quarters on 22 February 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Kuroko-michi pilgrimage route — added to the Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range UNESCO World Heritage Site in October 2016 — runs just east of the station, making Kii-Shimizu a walkable starting point for the long route up to Mount Kōya's Okunoin.