History
Demachiyanagi Station, in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, is the northern terminus of the Keihan Ōtō Line and the southern terminus of the Eizan Electric Railway's Main Line. The above-ground Eiden platforms opened on 27 September 1925 as a stop on the Kyoto Dentō company's Eizan Heitan Line; railway operations transferred to Keifuku Electric Railroad in 1942 and then to a spun-off Eizan Electric Railway on 1 April 1986. The underground Keihan station opened with the Ōtō Line extension on 5 October 1989, ending more than a decade in which Demachiyanagi had no rail connection to another operator. The current six-storey "Keihan Demachiyanagi Building" station structure was completed on 24 June 1993.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's name combines two place names from opposite banks of the Kamo River: "Demachi" on the western side around Kawaramachi-Imadegawa, and "Yanagi" on the eastern bank where the platforms actually stand.