History
Amanohashidate Station opened on 31 July 1925 when the Ministry of Railways extended its Miyazu line between Miyazu and Tango-Yamada (today Yosano). The station, in Miyazu, Kyoto Prefecture, serves as the rail gateway to Amanohashidate, one of the Three Views of Japan. Following the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West, and on 1 April 1990 to Kitakinki Tango Railway with the handover of the Miyazu Line. Electrification was extended to the station on 16 March 1996, allowing JR West limited expresses to run through. From 1 April 2015 operation passed to Willer Trains, and on 22 May 2015 a redesigned wooden Japanese-style station building was unveiled.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The wooden station building, rebuilt in July 1990 and modelled on the funaya boathouses of nearby Ine, received the Japan Railway Construction Association Award in 1991 and is unusual among third-sector stations for retaining a staffed Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket office.