History
Ichihara Station is on the Eizan Electric Railway Kurama Line in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, with station number E14. It opened on 1 December 1928 as a station of the Kurama Electric Railway, became a Keifuku Electric Railway station via merger in 1942, and joined the Eizan Electric Railway in 1986 when Keifuku transferred the Kurama Line to it. The station originally had two opposed platforms; the surrounding double track between Nikenchaya and Ichihara was reduced to single track in 1939 as a wartime economy measure and remains single-track today. Sakyō-ku, the host ward, occupies the northeastern part of Kyoto, was created in 1929 by splitting from Kamigyō-ku, and is the long, north-south-shaped ward that reaches all the way from urbanised districts near the Kamo River up into the mountain villages of Hanase and Kuta on Kyoto's northern boundary with Nantan and Shiga.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Between Ichihara and the next station Ninose, maples line both sides of the track to form the "Maple Tunnel" (もみじのトンネル), well known for autumn foliage views from the train; the Sakyō-ku article notes that the ward stretches from urbanised southern districts into the Tanba Highlands forest country of the north where forestry remains active.