History
Fujinomori Station opened on 15 April 1910 with the Keihan Main Line, originally named Shidan-mae after the headquarters of the Imperial Japanese Army's 16th Division, which then occupied land that is now Kyoto Seibo Gakuin. The station was renamed Fujinomori on 1 September 1941 — wartime regulations objecting to a stop name that openly disclosed an army-division location. It was incorporated into Keihanshin Kyūkō in 1943, returned to Keihan Electric Railway at the 1949 demerger, and saw a major rebuild concluded on 7 September 1967. Automatic ticket gates arrived in 1994; accessibility upgrades from the late-2000s added a new west gate on 26 September 2009 and elevators on 26 March 2010.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
From the mid-1980s until accessibility works in 2010 covered them over, Fujinomori's platform columns and beams were painted lilac, riffing on the wisteria of nearby Fujinomori Shrine.