History
Shigasato Station opened on 15 May 1927 as a stop on the Biwako Tetsudō Kisen between Sango (later abolished) and Matsunobaba. A merger placed it under Keihan Electric Railway on 11 April 1929. During the wartime corporate consolidations the station became part of Keihanshin Kyūkō Dentetsu, the forerunner of Hankyū, from 1 October 1943, before reverting to Keihan on 1 December 1949 when the companies separated. The stop was moved 400 metres towards Sakamoto in January 1945, then returned to its original position 400 metres towards Ishiyamadera in May 1955. The station is laid out as two staggered side platforms either side of a public-road level crossing, with no station building; the station number is OT18.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
After Shigasato moved back to its 1927 site in 1955, its prior wartime location was kept open as a separate stop called Suikō-Nōjō-mae, which was suspended in 1956 and formally abolished in 1974.