History
Shūgakuin Station opened on 27 September 1925 as a stop on the Eizan Heitan Line of Kyoto Dentō, the electric utility that built the line. On 2 March 1942 the railway business was transferred to Keifuku Electric Railroad, which became operator of the Eizan Main Line. In 1970, construction of Kitayama-dōri prompted the station to be relocated approximately 100 metres south of its original site. On 1 April 1986 Keifuku transferred the Eizan Main Line to a new subsidiary, the Eizan Electric Railway, which has run the station ever since under station number E05. The station has two opposed side platforms and is normally unstaffed, with attendants posted only during the weekday morning peak.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station shares its name with the nearby Shūgakuin Imperial Villa, but the place name actually predates the villa: it derives from a now-vanished medieval temple called Shūgakuin from which the villa later took its title.