History
Fushimi Station (Kintetsu Kyoto Line, station number B06) opened on 15 November 1928 as a station of the Nara Electric Railway, in Fukakusa-Shibataya-Yashiki-chō, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, when the line between Kyoto and Momoyama-Goryō-Mae was inaugurated. On 21 December 1945 a new connecting track was built between Fushimi and Tanbabashi Station of the Keihan Main Line, and all trains began running through to Tanbabashi, ending operations via the former Horiuchi route (the predecessor of today's Kintetsu Tanbabashi). The line passed to Kintetsu on 1 October 1963 with the merger of the Nara Electric Railway. PiTaPa support began on 1 April 2007 and the station was made fully unstaffed on 10 January 2024. A separate government-railway Fushimi Station occupied roughly the same site as a Nara Railway station from 5 September 1895 until 3 September 1928; it became a Kansai Railway then a national-government station, served as Kyoto–Fushimi terminus to 1 August 1921, and finally closed in 1928.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Fushimi Station was built as an elevated structure because at the time it opened, the Kyoto Municipal Tram Fushimi Line (abolished 1970) ran on Kyoto Prefectural Route 115 (Takeda-kaidō) immediately north-west of the site and required grade separation. During the earlier Nara-Railway era this had been a level crossing, and there were several collisions between trams and trains. The station also displays a sign for tourists: "For Fushimi-Inari, please use Fushimi-Inari Station on the Keihan Main Line".