Tanakaguchi

History

Tanakaguchi Station opened on 15 June 1924 on the Santō Light Railway between today's Wakayama Station (then Higashi-Wakayama) and Nichizengū (then Akizuki). Two years earlier the Kisei West Line had reached Wakayama, prompting the light railway to reroute its tracks east to the new junction; the abandoned segment had left the area around the former Ōhashi Station without a station, and residents petitioned for a replacement, giving rise to Tanakaguchi. Subsequent owners were Santō Railway (1929), Wakayama Railway (1931), Wakayama Electric Tramway (1957) and Nankai Electric Railway (1961), with the line transferred to today's Wakayama Electric Railway on 1 April 2006. The wooden station building survived into the 1990s before being demolished.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

Despite its own existence, Tanakaguchi sits only 600 m from Wakayama Station and the same distance from the Tanaka-chō neighbourhood that gives it its name — making the walk from the busier junction comparable.