Shimoyama (Kyoto)

History

Shimoyama Station opened on 10 October 1925 at Shimoyama-Ono, Kyōtamba, Funai District, Kyoto Prefecture, between Goma and Wachi on the Railway Ministry's San'in Main Line. It was a petition-built station, opened because the line had been routed away from the centre of the former Tanba-chō. Freight handling ended on 1 March 1963, parcel handling ended and the station was de-staffed on 1 December 1971, and on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR West at the JNR privatisation. It came under the Maizuru Railway Sub-Bureau when that was established on 1 April 1991, returned to Fukuchiyama Branch direct management at the sub-bureau's abolition on 1 July 2006 (becoming a station managed by Nishi-Maizuru), then was successively transferred to Ayabe and, on 1 June 2022, to Fukuchiyama; on 1 October 2022 it came under the Fukuchiyama Management Division of the Kinki Statistical Headquarters.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.

Notes

Since 13 March 2021, Shimoyama has been the JR station closest to Osaka, on the JR network, that does not accept ICOCA or any other IC card. The platforms are planted with cherry blossom trees around the surrounding embankment.