History
Tōjiin/Ritsumeikan-Daigaku-Kinugasa-Kyanpasu-mae Station (B 8) is a Keifuku Electric Railway Kitano Line tramway stop in Tōjiin-Nishimachi, Kita-ku, Kyoto — the third-longest station name in Japan. It opened on 3 November 1925 as Tōjiin Station, on Kyoto Dentō's Arashiyama Electric Railway Kitano Line between Kitano (today Kitano-Hakubaichō) and Takao-guchi (today Utano). It passed to Keifuku Electric Railway on 2 March 1942. On 20 March 2020 it was renamed to its current full name, briefly making it Japan's longest station name at 26 reading characters (17 written). Two opposed side platforms; the very short 200 m to the neighbouring Ryōanji Station is the shortest inter-station distance on the Kitano Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
When the station's full name was adopted on 20 March 2020, it briefly held the record as the longest station name in Japan at 26 reading characters — a record lost just nine months later on 1 January 2021 when Toyama Toyopet's Hone-no-machi stop was renamed 'Toyota Mobility Toyama G-Square Gofuku-mae' (32 reading characters).