History
Nijō Station opened on February 15, 1897 as the terminus of the Kyoto Railway (now the San'in Main Line) and remained terminal until the line was extended westward to Saga later that year. The Kyoto Railway was nationalised in 1907, and the line became part of the San'in Main Line in 1912. A wooden Meiji-era station building, designed by Chūta Itō, served until elevation works completed in 1996; the structure was preserved and relocated to what is now the Kyoto Railway Museum. The Kyoto Subway Tōzai Line opened a connecting station on October 12, 1997 and was extended west to Uzumasa-Tenjingawa on January 16, 2008.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-10.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The original 1904 wooden station building, designed by architect Chūta Itō, was preserved and reinstalled at the Kyoto Railway Museum after the 1996 elevation works.