History
Taiji Station opened on 18 July 1935 when the then-named Kisei-chū Line was opened between Kii-Katsuura and Shimosato. Successive line-renaming reorganisations placed it on the Kisei West Line in 1940 and on the present-day Kisei Main Line in 1959 when the through route between Kameyama and Wakayama (now Kiwa) was completed. The station became unstaffed in March 1985, and on 1 April 1987 the privatisation of Japanese National Railways transferred it to JR West. From the 15 March 2014 timetable revision, every Kuroshio limited-express service began stopping at Taiji, and a new disaster-resilient station building was completed on 31 May 2021. Daily management is contracted out to the town of Taiji.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
In 1996 the town's whaling heritage was commemorated with a whale mural painted onto the platform retaining wall.