Mototanaka

History

Mototanaka Station opened on 27 September 1925 as a stop on the Kyoto Dentō-operated Eizan Heitan Line, originally located about 100 metres closer to Demachiyanagi than its present site. It moved to its current location on 17 December 1949. The station passed to Keifuku Electric Railroad on 2 March 1942 and to the present operator Eizan Electric Railway on 1 April 1986. Located in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, near Kyoto University, the unstaffed station has two staggered side platforms separated by the Higashiōji-dōri road — a legacy of the years 1949–1955 when through-running by Kyoto City Trams used a connecting curve at this point.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

From 1949 to 1955 Kyoto City Trams ran through to Yamabana (now Takaragaike) via a connecting curve here, dropping passengers at Kyoto Keirin race meetings; remnants of the connecting track survived in the pavement until the 1978 abolition of the tram line.