is a passenger

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located in the city of

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. It is operated by

West Japan Railway Company , also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, ...

(JR West).

Lines

Although the station is on the

Sakurai Line The is a railway line operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) in Nara Prefecture. It connects Nara Station, Nara on the Yamatoji Line to Takada Station (Nara), Takada on the Wakayama Line, with some services continuing on the Wakayama L ...

as rail infrastructure, it has been served by the Man-yō Mahoroba Line since 2010 in terms of passenger train services. It is 12.6 kilometers from the starting point of the line at .

Layout

The station is an above-ground station with one

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms, ...

serving bi-directional traffic, with the platform on the right side facing towards Sakurai. The station is unattended. JR Nagara sta 002.jpg, Platform

History

Nagara Station was opened on 20 August 1914. With the privatization of the

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(JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station was transferred to

JR West , also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, ...

. The station building was transferred to the city of Tenri in 2019, and was remodeled to include a cafe and retail spaces.

Passenger statistics

The average daily passenger traffic in fiscal 2020 was 440 passengers.統計情報運輸・通信 4.JR西日本の乗客数
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Surrounding area

Ōyamato Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Tenri, Nara in Japan. In the time of Emperor Sujin there was a crisis. Amaterasu ( via the Yata-no-Kagami and the Kusanagi sword) and Yamato Okunitama, the tutelary deity of Yamato, were originally worshipped in ...

* Birth home of

Nakayama Miki was a nineteenth-century Japanese farmer and religious leader. She is the primary figure of the Japanese new religion Tenrikyo. Tenrikyo followers, who refer to her as Oyasama (おやさま or 親様), believe that she was settled in the Shrine ...

* Nara Football Center

References

External links

Official website
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1914 Railway stations in Nara Prefecture Tenri, Nara {{Nara-railstation-stub