The station building, which was meant to be provisional, had been maintained with its original structure because the underground station project itself was frustrated due to the Showa Depression among other things; and when the Tokaido Shinkansen was constructed the exclusive tracks and platforms for Shinkansen were built right above it, and the station of the Nara Electric Railway was also equipped with three elevated tracks (however, the permission to extend the building to Kita-guchi (north entrance/exit) was withheld until right after the company's merger with Kintetsu Corporation).
この仮設の予定であった駅は、昭和恐慌などの影響で地下化計画自体が事実上頓挫する格好でそのままの形で残され、東海道新幹線が建設される際にはその直上に新幹線の線路とプラットホームを設置し、同時に奈良電の駅も高架3線化された（なお北口までの延伸免許自体は、近鉄への合併直後まで保持された）。