History
Tomioka-mae Station opened on 24 April 1925, the same day the Hiromi Line itself began service. It remained a staffed local station for more than eighty years before being unstaffed in August 2007, when a station-cluster management system was introduced; the Transpass ticketing system entered service on 8 August of that year. The platforms have simple roofs and benches but no toilet, and a 2025 description notes that the previously scattered shops around the station have entirely disappeared. The Kyoto University Primate Research Institute and Jōtō Post Office lie near the station; only local trains stop here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Tomioka-mae's daily boardings in 2013 (850) were less than half the 1,656 it recorded in 1992, reflecting the long decline of the immediate Hiromi Line neighbourhood.