History
Tambaguchi Station opened on 27 April 1897 when the Kyoto Railway extended its line from Ōmiya — then a temporary terminus in Kyoto — to Nijō. After the Kyoto Railway was nationalised in 1907, the stop was incorporated into the San'in Main Line in 1912. A freight branch to the Kyoto Central Wholesale Market opened in 1927. The station was relocated 500 m north and elevated on 16 March 1976, at which point the freight yard, which remained at ground level, became the independent Kyōto-ichiba Freight Terminal until its closure in 1984. The station passed to JR West at the 1987 privatisation, gained the Sagano Line nickname in 1988, ICOCA in 2003, and number JR-E03 in March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's name preserves the memory of one of the seven traditional entry-points into Heian-period Kyoto; the rails run along part of the former line of the Heian capital's central avenue, Suzaku-ōji, today represented by Senbon-dōri.