History
Myōji Station opened on 25 November 1900, when the Kiwa Railway extended its line between Hashimoto and Kokawa through the Wakayama countryside. The Kiwa Railway's holdings were absorbed by the Kansai Railway in 1904 and then nationalised in 1907, after which the station fell under the new Wakayama Line designation in 1909. Freight handling ended in 1982 and parcel handling in 1984. With the 1987 dissolution of Japanese National Railways, operation passed to West Japan Railway Company. ICOCA card support was added on 14 March 2020, and the station is currently unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The former staffed station building now houses a tourist-information and local-products centre, the "Myōji Station Marché".