History
Narutaki Station opened on 10 March 1926 when Kyoto Dentō's Arashiyama Electric Railway extended its Kitano Line west from Takaoguchi (today's Utano) to Katabiranotsuji. On 2 March 1942 the line and station passed to the Keifuku Electric Railroad (now branded Randen). The station has two opposed ground-level platforms linked by a level crossing within the precinct, and the section running south to Tokiwa is double-tracked.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Until a similar crossing was added at Katabiranotsuji in March 2011, the level crossing inside Narutaki Station was the only one of its kind on the entire Randen network. The stretch of line between Narutaki and adjacent Utano is lined on both sides with Somei-yoshino cherry trees and is known as the "Randen tunnel of cherry blossoms".