History
Matsunobamba Station opened on 15 May 1927 as part of the Biwako Tetsudō Kisen line between Sanjō (now defunct) and the new station, with the line extended further to Sakamoto (now Sakamoto-Hieizanguchi) on 13 August of the same year. The 1929 corporate merger transferred operations to Keihan Electric Railway, and a 1943 wartime merger placed it under Keihanshin Kyūkō (the predecessor of Hankyū). The Anō–Sakamoto section was single-tracked for metal salvage on 31 March 1945 and the station was suspended from 15 May 1945 until 10 September 1946. Keihan resumed independent operations in December 1949, and the section was double-tracked again on 30 September 1997, at which point a new island-platform layout entered service on 2 August of that year.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.