History
Tambabashi Station opened on 20 June 1910 as Momoyama on the Keihan Main Line, two months after the rest of the line, and was renamed on 29 July 1913 to avoid confusion with the access station for Emperor Meiji's mausoleum. From 21 December 1945 the wartime-merged Keihanshin Kyūkō absorbed Nara Electric Railway's adjacent Horiuchi station to give Nara Electric — and eventually Kintetsu — through running over Keihan tracks; that operation lasted until 20 December 1968, when the lines were separated and Kinki-Nihon-Tambabashi Station became independent (renamed Kintetsu-Tambabashi in March 1970). Keihan's 1 June 1987 timetable change moved an underground passage into the former level-crossing site to lengthen the platforms for 8-car expresses. Tambabashi became an all-day limited-express stop on 1 July 2000, and accessibility upgrades through 2019 added new toilets and a multipurpose room.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The wartime track connection that gave Nara Electric and later Kintetsu trains direct access onto Keihan rails was actually finished in December 1945, four months after surrender — built as redundancy against bombing damage that, by then, no longer threatened it.