Yamato-Asakura

Weekday departures: 67/day · Sat & holiday departures: 67/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:17 / 24:27

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (6)

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• Kintetsu Osaka Line: Hasedera ⇄ Sakurai (Nara)

Yamato-Asakura Station opened on 3 November 1944 on Kintetsu's Osaka Line, between Sakurai and Hasedera, in present-day Sakurai, Nara Prefecture. A passing loop was installed on 15 March 1996, allowing the inflated and irregular daytime stop pattern of westbound semi-express trains to be normalised to a 20-minute headway. PiTaPa support began on 1 April 2007. On 17 March 2018 the station was added to the express stopping pattern, and from that date most semi-express and sectional semi-express services that had run through to Haibara or Nabari began turning back here, making it a major operational pivot on the line.

On 10 October 2010 an Imperial special train using the leading 21020-series "Urban Liner next" carried the Emperor and Empress from this station to Osaka-Uehommachi following an Imperial visit to Nara.