History
Kiyomizu-Gojō Station is an underground station on the Keihan Main Line at the east end of Gojō-ōhashi bridge in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, with station number KH38. It opened on 15 April 1910 as Gojō Station, the original Kyoto-side terminus of the Keihan Main Line, and was renamed Kiyomizu-Gojō on 19 October 2008 to mark the opening of the Nakanoshima Line. The station was relocated underground on 24 May 1987 as part of the continuous grade-separation project on the Tōfukuji–Sanjō section. Higashiyama-ku itself was created in 1929 by splitting the area east of the Kamo River off from Shimogyō-ku, and is the smallest-population ward of Kyoto's 11 wards; tightly regulated landscape rules — applied because the ward contains Kiyomizu-dera, Yasaka Shrine, the Gion entertainment district, and the Sannei-zaka historic streetscape — keep its mountain-foot zone largely free of large-scale residential development.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The station's platforms are coloured celadon-green to evoke Gojō-zaka, the historic pottery quarter immediately east of the station, where the August Tōki-matsuri ceramics festival traces its roots back to 1920 when local kilns began selling "seconds" outside their shops to visitors heading to the Buddhist Bon observances at Rokudō-chinnō-ji and the Ōtani Mausoleum.