History
Isonoura Station opened on 16 June 1912 as a station on the Kada Light Railway in what is now Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, and was relocated 0.1 mile toward Kada on 14 July 1913. A series of mergers brought it under successive operators: it became a Kada Electric Railway station on 22 December 1930, a Nankai Railway station on 1 February 1942, and a Kinki Nippon Railway station on 1 June 1944 under wartime corporate consolidation. On 1 June 1947 the Kada Line was transferred to the present Nankai Electric Railway. Station numbering was introduced on 1 April 2012, with Isonoura assigned the designation NK44-6.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Isonoura Beach immediately south of the station is one of the Kansai region's premier surfing destinations, and Nankai once imposed restrictions on bringing surfboards aboard its trains in response — a quirk for a line built for light-rail passenger service to a fishing town in 1912.