History
Hieizan Sakamoto Station opened on 20 July 1974 as Eizan Station, a Japanese National Railways stop on the newly built Kosei Line connecting Kyoto with the western shore of Lake Biwa. It passed to JR West with the 1987 privatisation and was renamed to its present form on 4 September 1994, both Hieizan and Eizan referring to Mount Hiei roughly four kilometres to the west. Automatic ticket gates entered service in September 1998 and ICOCA support followed on 1 November 2003. A 2005 rebuild added barrier-free facilities including an elevator and accessible toilet. Station numbering was introduced in March 2018, assigning Hieizan Sakamoto the code JR-B27.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station was originally called simply Eizan ("Mount Hiei"); the 1994 renaming to Hieizan Sakamoto attached the name of the historic Sakamoto townscape, designated as a Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, which spreads out west of the platforms.