History
Kibuneguchi Station opened on 20 December 1929 as a Kurama Electric Railway station serving the approach to Kifune Shrine, in the mountainous Kyoto suburb of Kurama-Kibune. Company mergers transferred the station to Keifuku Electric Railroad's Kurama Line on 1 August 1942 and to Eizan Electric Railway when the Kurama Line was transferred from Keifuku to Eizan on 1 April 1986. From 8 March 2019 the existing entrance was replaced with a temporary one and the in-front bus stop was relocated to Kurama-kaidō while the station building was rebuilt; the new building came into use on 19 March 2020 with the first lift ever installed on the Eizan Electric Railway. The station carries number E16.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station platform sits partly above the confluence of the Kurama and Kibune rivers and on a rail bridge over Kyoto Prefectural Road 361; the in-station waiting room was named 'Reigetsu' (令月) by the chief priest of Kifune Shrine, and the platform's autumn maples are illuminated during the November 'Kibune Momiji Tōrō' festival.