History
Kii-Kamiya Station opened on 18 June 1928 as Kamiya Station, the mountain-side terminus of the Kōyasan Electric Railway. It became an intermediate stop on 21 February 1929 when the line was extended one stop further to Gokurakubashi, and was renamed Kii-Kamiya on 1 March 1930. A 1947 corporate rename placed the station under Nankai Electric Railway, where it remains. Located in Kōya, Wakayama Prefecture, at an elevation of 473 metres, the unstaffed island-platform stop is widely described as a hikyō-eki — an unusually remote, isolated station, rare for a major private railway. Service was suspended between October 2017 and March 2018 by typhoon-related track damage at neighbouring Kamikosawa.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
On 17 March 1937 a runaway electric train approaching from Gokurakubashi was deliberately derailed by a Kii-Kamiya station attendant using a switch lever; two passengers died and twelve were injured, but the train was prevented from plunging into the valley.