is a Kintetsu railway station

Train station

A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...

 on the Kintetsu Osaka and the Kashihara Line

Kintetsu Kashihara Line

of Kintetsu Corporation is a north-south bound railway line between Yamato-Saidaiji Station and Kashiharajingu-mae Station in Nara Prefecture, in Japan...

s in Kashihara

Kashihara, Nara

is a city located in Nara, Japan. It is the second largest city in the prefecture.As of January 1, 2010, the city has an estimated population of 125,547 and the density of 3,176.79 persons per km². The total area is 39.52 km²....

, Nara Prefecture

Nara Prefecture

is a prefecture in the Kansai region on Honshū Island, Japan. The capital is the city of Nara.-History:The present-day Nara Prefecture was created in 1887, making it independent of Osaka Prefecture....

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. It is a key station servicing train lines to and from Osaka

Osaka

is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...

, Nara

Nara, Nara

is the capital city of Nara Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. The city occupies the northern part of Nara Prefecture, directly bordering Kyoto Prefecture...

, Kyoto

Kyoto

is a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as a major part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area.-History:...

, and Nagoya.

The station opened in 1923 as station on the Kashihara Line, becoming a stop on the Osaka Line in 1929.

Station

Yamato-Yagi Station handles over 37,000 passengers daily, and has many stores inside the station:

• Pocket plat (convenience store) on platforms 1-4 and 6
• Lemon (cake shop) on platform 5
• Wakakusa Shoten (book shop) on platform 6
• Small convenience store on platform 5
• Pannetery (bread shop) on platform 5
• Kakinohazushi (sushi shop) on platform 6
• Udon restaurant on platforms 1-2

Layout

There are two island platform

Island platform

An island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange...

s serving four tracks for the Osaka Line on the second floor, and two side platform

Side platform

A Side platform is a platform positioned to the side of a pair of tracks at a railway station, a tram stop or a transitway. A pair of side platforms are often provided on a dual track line with a single side platform being sufficient for a single track line...

s serving two tracks for the Kashihara Line on the first floor.

Environs

• Kintetsu Department Store
  Kintetsu Department Store
  is a department store chain in the Kansai region, Japan. It is headquartered in Abenosuji Itchome, Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan.-History:*January, 1920: was opened in front of Kyoto Station.*February, 1920: was founded....
  
  
• Cinema
• Bank of Nanto
• S2 bar
• Tachibana sushi shop (some Western influences)
• Maru izakaya (two locations, mostly fried Kansai food)
• Capricciosa Italian restaurant
• Cafe Anjou coffee shop and curry restaurant
• Clover bar and restaurant (serves lunch)
• Za Watami izakaya (multiple floors)
• Yamatoya izakaya (serves sushi and nabe)
• Kichiri izkaya
• pachinko
  Pachinko
  is a type of game originating in Japan, and used as both a form of recreational arcade game and much more frequently as a gambling device, filling a niche in gambling in Japan comparable to that of the slot machine in Western gambling. A pachinko machine resembles a vertical pinball machine, but...
  
   parlor

Highway access

• Japan National Route 24
• Japan National Route 165
• Japan National Route 166
  Route 166 (Japan)
  National Route 166 is a national highway of Japan connecting Habikino, Osaka and Matsusaka, Mie in Japan, with a total length of 125.4 km ....
  
  
• Japan National Route 169
  Route 169 (Japan)
  National Route 169 is a national highway of Japan connecting Nara, Nara and Shingū, Wakayama in Japan, with a total length of 184.6 km ....
  
  
• Nara Prefectural Route 158 (Yamato-Yagi Teishajō Route)
• Nara Prefectural Route 161 (Unebi-Goryō-mae Teishajō Route)
• Nara Prefectural Route 206 (Toyōra-Yamato-Yagi Teishajō Route)

Connecting lines and services