History
Kawaragahama Station opened on 17 January 1914 on the Ōtsu Electric Tramway, simultaneous with the relocation of the nearby Betsuho Station (today's Awazu); a Betsuho stop had previously existed at this location. Through corporate mergers the operator became Biwako Tetsudō Kisen in 1927, Keihan Electric Railway in 1929, and Keihan Shinkyū Kōtetsu (today's Hankyū) in October 1943 under wartime consolidation. The station was suspended from 15 August 1944 until 1 December 1945, and on 1 December 1949 it reverted to Keihan Electric Railway when the company demerged. Today it is stop OT05 on the Ishiyama Sakamoto Line, with two staggered platforms across a public-road grade crossing and no staffed ticket office.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although unstaffed, the station has dedicated PiTaPa/ICOCA touch-card readers on each platform that passengers must tap directly when entering and leaving.