History
Kii-Nagata Station opened on 7 March 1903 as the Nagata Temporary Stop on the privately built Kiwa Railway in what is now Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture. The Kansai Railway absorbed the line in 1904 and was itself nationalised in 1907. The stop was redesignated a provisional station on 22 February 1908 and became part of the Wakayama Line under the 1909 line-naming reforms. It was promoted to a full station and renamed Kii-Nagata on 15 July 1938, but was closed from 10 August 1941 until reopening on 23 September 1952. JNR's 1 April 1987 privatisation passed it to JR West, and ICOCA service began on 14 March 2020. It is now a simple single-platform halt with no station building.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Wakayama Line's faster rapid services normally bypass Kii-Nagata, but they make a special stop here on the day of the Hatsu-Uma festival at the nearby Nagata Kannon temple — one of the few times the otherwise sparsely used halt sees noticeable crowds.