History
Kii-Hime Station opened on 11 December 1936 with the Japanese National Railways' extension of the Kisei Chūsen line from Shimosato to Kushimoto, in what is now the town of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture. The name takes the Kii prefix because a Hime Station already existed on the Taita Line. In 1940 the station became part of the Kisei West Line, and in 1959 it was absorbed into the Kisei Main Line when the trunk route between Kameyama and Wakayama was completed. Control passed to West Japan Railway Company at the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, and ICOCA use began on 13 March 2021. The station has been unstaffed since opening, with a single side platform on one bi-directional track.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Pine trees once grew thickly near the station, but were cut down during World War II to extract pine-root oil for use as aviation fuel and have not regenerated.