History
Torokko Saga Station is the eastern terminus of the Sagano Scenic Railway's Sagano Scenic Line, opened on 27 April 1991 in Saga Tenryū-ji Kurumamichi-chō, Ukyō-ku, Kyoto. The station shares its building with JR West Saga-Arashiyama Station on the Sanin Main Line, the western Saga-Arashiyama transfer point for Kyoto's Sagano sightseeing district. The station building was rebuilt in 1997, and the trackside 19th Century Hall and "Diorama Kyoto JAPAN" — one of Japan's largest HO-scale model railway dioramas — opened in 2003 and 2011 respectively. A static D51 51 steam locomotive stood at the entrance until it was removed in December 2019 due to aging.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
The 19th Century Hall and the adjacent main entrance once displayed three preserved Japanese steam locomotives — JNR Class C58 48, C56 98 and D51 51 — though the D51 was removed in December 2019 because of its deteriorating condition.