History
Ishiyamadera Station opened on 4 June 1914 on the Ōtsu Electric Railway when service was extended to it from the earlier Hotarudani Station (opened 15 February 1914 as a terminus). Through corporate reorganisations the station passed to Lake Biwa Railway-and-Ship Company on 21 January 1927, to Keihan Electric Railway on 11 April 1929, to Keihan-Shinkyū Express on 1 October 1943, and back to Keihan Electric Railway following the demerger on 1 December 1949. On 20 August 1937 the older Hotarudani Station was abolished and consolidated into Ishiyamadera. The station was renamed Ishiyama-Hotarudani on 1 October 1950 but reverted to Ishiyamadera on 1 April 1953. The current station building dates from 1991. From 4 October 2003 the all-day staffing was reduced to part-time. The station carries number OT01 and is the southern terminus of the Keihan Ishiyama Sakamoto Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Ishiyamadera Station uses a head-end three-platform, two-track layout where each track is sandwiched by platforms (the only example on Keihan apart from the cable line): outer platforms are for alighting only and inner platforms for boarding, although platform 2 is used for both during peak demand. Per the English Wikipedia article, the station averaged 1,236 daily boarding passengers in fiscal 2018.