Naruto (Tokushima)

Weekday departures: 16/day · Sat & holiday departures: 16/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:32 / 21:00

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (1)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Naruto Line: Muya

Naruto Station opened on 18 January 1928 as Muya Station, when the privately operated Awa Electric Railway (later Awa Railway) extended its line from the previous terminus, which simultaneously surrendered the Muya name and became Ebisumae Station. Following nationalisation of the Awa Railway on 1 July 1933, the route passed to the Japanese Government Railways and later the Japanese National Railways. The current station name dates from 1 August 1948. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station came under JR Shikoku as the terminus of the Naruto Line, assigned station number N10.

The current Naruto Station inherited its name in 1948 from what is now Muya Station further south on the line — a swap that had already happened once in 1928, when the line was first extended and the original Muya terminus passed its name to the new end of track.