History
Kintetsu-Tambabashi Station traces back to 15 November 1928, when Nara Electric Railway opened Horiuchi Station on its Kyoto-Momoyama-goryōmae line. From 21 December 1945 Nara Electric realigned its tracks to share the adjacent Keihan Tambabashi Station, and Horiuchi was absorbed into the joint depot. Nara Electric merged into Kintetsu on 1 October 1963. On 29 March 1967 a dedicated Kintetsu platform was opened on the former Horiuchi site for trains that did not run through to Keihan, and on 20 December 1968 — when through running ended — that platform was hived off as Kinki-Nihon-Tambabashi Station, renamed Kintetsu-Tambabashi on 1 March 1970. The station joined Kintetsu's all-day limited-express stops on 20 March 2002 and gained PiTaPa IC-card support on 1 April 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Until the joint station opened in 1945, transferring between Keihan's Tambabashi and Nara Electric's Horiuchi was so awkward — their gates faced different streets — that timetables actually recommended changing at Momoyama-goryōmae and Fushimi-Momoyama instead.