History
Fushimi-Inari Station opened on 15 April 1910 as Inari-Shindō on the Keihan Main Line, in Fushimi Ward, Kyōto, and was renamed Inari Station on 16 December the same year. Becoming an express stop in 1916, it was renamed Inari-Jinja-mae in 1939, briefly returned to Hanshin-Kyūkō through wartime merger, and was renamed Fushimi-Inari on 1 January 1948 to follow the parent shrine's name change. Until the line crossed the Kyoto City Tram Inari Line at grade until 1970, the station was the scene of several serious collisions, including ones in 1931 and 1934 that destroyed tramcars and caused multiple casualties. The platform pillars are painted vermilion in keeping with the senbon-torii of Fushimi Inari Taisha, and a 2017 station refurbishment was completed at the end of that year.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
During the wartime years the vermilion paint of the station was replaced with a more discreet colour to deny bombers an easy aerial landmark.