Tenri Station

Tenri Station 天理駅
Location
Prefecture	Nara (See other stations in Nara)
City	Tenri
Neighborhood etc.	816 Kawaharajō-chō (JR) 815 Kawaharajō-chō (Kintetsu)
Postal Code	632-0016
(in Japanese)	奈良県天理市川原城町816 (JR) 奈良県天理市川原城町815 (近鉄)
History
Opened	1898 (JR) 1915 (Kintetsu)
Former names	Tambaichi Station Tenrishi Station
Rail services
Operator(s)	JR West, Kintetsu
Line(s)	Sakurai Line Tenri Line
Statistics	2,769 (JR) 10,694 (Kintetsu) passengers/day JR (2009) Kintetsu (2008)
Large bus terminal(s) attached to the station

Tenri Station (天理駅, Tenri-eki) is a train station in Tenri, Nara, Japan.

Lines

• West Japan Railway Company
  • Sakurai Line (Man-yō Mahoroba Line)
• Kintetsu Corporation
  • Tenri Line

Building

The station has two levels. The first level is used for the Kintetsu Tenri Line while the second level is used for the JR Sakurai Line.

JR Line

The JR arrival-departure area is an island-shaped, and has 2 platforms and 4 lines.

1, 2	■for group trains
3	■Man-yō Mahoroba Line	for Nara
4	■Man-yō Mahoroba Line	for Sakurai, Takada and Ōji

Kintetsu Line

There are 3 lines, with 3 platforms. Since it is the terminal, there is no specification to which line is used for what purposes. However, express trains for Kyoto often mainly leaves from line 3.

1, 2, 3

■Tenri Line

for Hirahata, Yamato-Saidaiji and Kyōto Change trains at Hirahata for Yamato-Yagi and Kashiharajingū-mae Change trains at Yamato-Saidaiji for Nara, Ōsaka Namba, Amagasaki and Kōbe (Sannomiya)

Buses

There are several bus lines by Nara Kotsu departing from the main entrance.

History

• 1898 The station opens as Tanbaichi Station of Nara Railways
• 1905 The station becomes the part of Kansai Railway
• 1907 Becomes part of Japanese Government Railways (predecessor of JNR)
• 1915 Tenri Narrow Railway expands to Tenri
• 1921 Tenri Narrow Railway merges with Osaka Electric Railway (predecessor of Kintetsu)
• 1941 OER and Sangu Kyuko Railway merges
• 1944 Kankyu Tenri station becomes Kintetsu Tenri Station
• 1963 JNR Tanbaichi Station becomes Tenrishi Station
• 1965 The Sakurai Line is elevated, and both stations merges into one
• 1987 JNR becomes JR West
• 2007 Kintetsu Tenri starts using PiTaPa

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Sakurai Line (Man-yō Mahoroba Line)
Ichinomoto		Local		Nagara
Ichinomoto		Rapid Service		Nagara
Kintetsu Tenri Line
Senzai		Local		Terminus
Senzai		Express		Terminus