History
Kada Station (NK44-7) is on Nankai Electric Railway's Kada Line in Kada, Wakayama, and is the line's western terminus. It opened on 16 June 1912 when the Kada Light Railway between Wakayama-guchi Station (later Kitajima, now closed) and Kada was inaugurated. The railway was renamed Kada Electric Railway on 22 December 1930, was absorbed into Nankai Railway on 1 February 1942, into Kintetsu on 1 June 1944, and back to Nankai Electric Railway on 1 June 1947 by line transfer. Station numbering was introduced on 1 April 2012. The station has a 2-track bay layout with two comb platforms; Platform 1 handles almost every train. The station building dates from the line's 1912 opening — its brick foundation and Western-style exterior are largely unchanged, and platform-roof supports have been reused from rails laid at the time of opening.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Kada is the westernmost station in Wakayama Prefecture, the westernmost station of Nankai, and the westernmost station of any major private railway in the Kinki region (and on Honshū). The 1912 brick-foundation station building is still in use, and the original rails laid when the line opened have been reused as platform-roof support posts.