History
Takaragaike Station is an interchange between the Eizan Main Line and the Kurama Line in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, sharing station number E06. It opened on 1925-09-27 as Yamabana Station (山端駅) on the Kyoto Dentō-operated Eizan flat line. The Kurama Electric Railway extended to it from Ichihara on 1928-12-01, making it a junction. Operation passed to Keifuku Electric Railroad on 1942-03-02, and Kurama Electric Railway was absorbed on 1942-08-01 so both lines came under one operator. Sections were singled for wartime material requisitions in 1944 and progressively redoubled between 1951 and 1958. The station was renamed Takaragaike on 1954-06-10, and the line was transferred to Eizan Electric Railway on 1986-04-01.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the station's canopy posts were repainted in 2009, one post on the platform showing the kana "やまばな" (the former station name Yamabana) was deliberately left under a clear protective coat, with an interpretive sign installed alongside it as a memento of the original station name.