History
Kami-Katsura Station opened on 9 November 1928 with the inauguration of the Shinkeihan Railway Arashiyama Line, in present-day Nishikyō Ward, Kyoto. The Shinkeihan Railway was absorbed into Keihan Electric Railway on 15 September 1930, and then through wartime merger into Keihan-Shinkyū Express (now Hankyu Railway) on 1 October 1943. The Arashiyama Line was singled across the whole route on 9 January 1944 for metal-resource salvage and Kami-Katsura became a single-track stop. The other track was restored at the station on 13 March 1950, restoring its passing capability. Station numbering HK-96 was introduced on 21 December 2013. A new exit and ticket-gate on the Arashiyama-bound platform was opened on 25 March 2017 as a step-free improvement; the two platforms can be crossed via an underpass.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Per the Japanese Wikipedia article, Kami-Katsura's 2025 calendar-year average daily ridership (boarding+alighting) was 7,355, ranking 77th out of 86 Hankyu stations — second-from-last only to Inano. The English Wikipedia article gives an older figure: about 3,282,000 annual users in fiscal 2015.