History
Keikyū Ōtsu Station opened on 1 April 1930 as Shōnan-Ōtsu Station on the Shōnan Electric Railway in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. It became part of Keihin Electric Railway in November 1941, the wartime Tokyu conglomerate in May 1942, and the present Keikyū at the company's 1 June 1948 founding. The stop was renamed Keihin-Ōtsu on 1 November 1963 and reached its present name on 1 June 1987. A wooden station building from the early period still serves as the entrance and houses ticket and turnstile equipment near the No. 1 platform. Keikyū assigned the stop number KK62 when it introduced system-wide station numbering on 21 October 2010.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A small shrine at the side of the station building, Ōtsu-juku Shumori-Inari, is said to date to 1713; its annual hatsu-uma rite includes participation by current Keikyū station staff.