History
Sumizome Station opened on 15 April 1910 with the Keihan Main Line. During the latter stages of the Pacific War it was briefly an express stop because Imperial Japanese Army 16th Division facilities lay nearby, but reverted to a local stop in the 15 February 1946 timetable when express service resumed. The station moved through the wartime Keihanshin Kyūkō merger and the 1949 demerger to Keihan Electric Railway, gained a new west-side gate on 1 September 1972, and was rebuilt in October 1995. From March 2016 there are mid-day periods with only sub-express service, after the all-day local pattern was thinned out.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station and surrounding district take their name from a Heian-period waka mourning the death of Fujiwara no Mototsune — Ueno-no-Mineo's poem 「深草の野辺の桜し心あらば今年ばかりは墨染めに咲け」 promised the cherries would 'bloom in ink-dye' only that one year.