History
Kii-Tahara Station opened on 11 December 1936 when Japanese Government Railways extended the Kisei Central Line from Shimosato to Kushimoto. In 1940 it became part of the renamed Kisei West Line, and in 1959 the through-completion of the Kisei Main Line absorbed it into that route. Freight handling ceased in 1962, the station was destaffed in 1985, and the 1987 JNR privatisation transferred it to JR West. ICOCA acceptance began on 13 March 2021. The unstaffed station, in Tahara village in the town of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, retains its original 1936 wooden station building, with most of the original windows now boarded over.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although the station name is read "Kii-Tahara", the underlying place name "Tahara" is locally pronounced "Tawara" — and the kilometre-post signs on the parallel National Route 42 use the spelling "Tawara".