History
Randen-Tenjingawa Station opened on 28 March 2008 as an infill stop on the Keifuku Electric Railroad (Randen) Arashiyama Main Line between Yamanouchi and Kaikonoyashiro, providing the formal transfer to Kyoto Municipal Subway Tōzai Line's new Uzumasa-Tenjingawa Station (which had itself opened ten weeks earlier on 16 January 2008). Construction began in November 2007, with Kyoto City covering 616 million yen of the 643 million yen budget. It was the first new infill stop on the Arashiyama Main Line since Rokuōin in 1956, and Keifuku's first new station of any kind since Jinaiground-mae on the Mikuni-Awara Line (then in its hands, now Echizen Railway) in 1992.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Although built on a section of street-running track, the stop has full platforms with overhead canopies and benches rather than just safety-zone curbs, and even the access path from the subway's exit 3 is roofed. The station carries the secondary name "Ukyō-ku Sōgō Chōsha-mae" ("Ukyō Ward Office"), reflecting the SANSA Ukyō municipal complex it serves.