History
Yamanouchi Station (A4) is on the Keifuku Electric Railroad Arashiyama Main Line in Yamanouchi Miyamae-chō, Ukyō-ku, Kyoto. It opened on 25 March 1910 with the rest of the Arashiyama Electric Tramway between Kyoto Station (today Shijō-Ōmiya) and Arashiyama, passed to the Kyoto Dentō-operated Arashiyama Electric Railway on 2 April 1918 and to Keifuku Electric Railroad on 2 March 1942. The station consists of two opposed safety-island street platforms of only about 60 cm width — sometimes called "Japan's narrowest platforms" — and is accessed only by a pedestrian crossing protected by signals timed to tram arrivals.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Yamanouchi's safety-island platforms are so narrow (about 60 cm) that wheelchair boarding is impossible — passengers needing step-free access are routed to the adjacent stops Nishiōji-Sanjō or Randen-Tenjingawa instead, and the pedestrian crossings onto the platforms are signal-coordinated so the road light goes red precisely as a tram pulls in.