History
Keihan-yamashina Station (OT31) is a Keihan Keishin Line stop in Yamashina-ku, Kyoto, sharing a building with the JR Tōkaidō/Kosei lines' Yamashina Station and the Kyoto Subway Tōzai Line's Yamashina Station (T07). It opened on 15 August 1912 as Bishamondō-michi Station on the Keishin Electric Tramway, was renamed Yamashina-eki-mae on 13 August 1921, moved 70 m towards Kyoto on 12 April 1934 — at which point it gained a 2-island-4-track layover layout — and successively belonged to the Keihan Electric Railway after the 1949 Keihanshin split. The current name, Keihan-yamashina, dates from 1 April 1953. In 1973 the layout was reduced to two opposed side platforms, and the platforms were extended from 2- to 4-car length around the time of the Tōzai Line's 1997 opening.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Although Keihan-yamashina shares a complex with the Subway Tōzai Line's Yamashina Station, transfer tickets to the Tōzai Line's Rokujizō direction are deliberately not sold — passengers are instead routed through the parallel Keishin Line via Misasagi Station, where Keihan and the subway share track.