History
Keihan-ishiyama Station serves the Keihan Electric Railway's Ishiyama Sakamoto Line in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, 1.6 kilometres from the line's terminus at Ishiyamadera. It opened on 12 January 1914 as Ishiyama-ekimae Station (literally 'Station-front Ishiyama Station'), only the fifth day of operation of the parent Ōtsu Electric Tramway and originally the line's terminus; on 17 January the line was extended to Karahashi-mae and it became a through stop. It joined the Biwako Tetsudō Kisen merger in 1927 and the Keihan group in 1929. The station was renamed to its current Keihan-ishiyama on 1 April 1953. On 31 March 2005 it was relocated alongside the JR West Ishiyama Station as a single elevated structure with one island platform, allowing direct concourse-to-concourse transfer between the two operators' platforms.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Adjacent JR Ishiyama Station was the site of the 25 April 1930 'Ishiyama Station Limited-Express Derailment' — a Tokyo-bound express derailed at a sharp turnout when running at high speed to make up time; thirteen people were injured, and a Tokyo newspaper put out an embarrassing extra edition reporting it as 'Limited Express derailed and overturned; many dead and injured'.