History
Katabiranotsuji Station opened on 10 March 1926, when Kyoto Dentō's Arashiyama Electric Railway extended its Kitano Line west from Takaoguchi (today's Utano), and from the start it served as the junction between the Kitano Line and the older Arashiyama Main Line. On 2 March 1942 the line passed to Keifuku Electric Railroad. The five-storey station building above the platforms was completed on 21 March 1973, and on 12 March 2011 a new at-grade ticket gate was opened on the south side of platform 1 and the previous underground gate closed, with a level crossing installed inside the precinct to connect platforms 1 and 2-4.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The Keifuku building above the platforms, "Randen Plaza Katabira", houses a supermarket and other shops; originally only the north side opened onto the street, but a new stair entrance was added in front of the 2011 gate. The cross-platform interchange between the Arashiyama Main Line and Kitano Line is connected only through track 4, so through-running trains must reverse on the main line outside the station.