History
Hōraioka Station opened on 26 April 1984 as one of two intermediate stops on the Hieizan Railway’s Sakamoto Cable funicular, located 0.3 km from the lower terminus at Cable Sakamoto. Cars stop only when notified in advance or summoned by the telephone on the platform; otherwise they pass through. The station consists of a single asphalt-paved sloped platform on the south side of the track, with no station building, awning, bench or toilet. Because the funicular operates on the alternating-cars principle, when one car halts at Hōraioka the opposite car halts on the section between Motateyama and Cable Sakamoto, just before the bridge adjacent to Hōraioka.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The shrine immediately beside the platform, Hōraioka Jizō-son, was created to enshrine stone Buddhas dug up during the original construction of the cable car; the stone Buddha cluster is visible from inside passing cars.