History
Rokujizō Station opened on 1 June 1913 with the inauguration of the Keihan Uji Line between Chūshojima and Uji. It became a station of the Keihanshin Express Railway in 1943 after the merger with Hanshin Kyūkō Dentetsu, and reverted to Keihan Electric Railway on 1 December 1949. From the line's opening through the mid-1960s the station and surrounding district were repeatedly flooded — by the 1917 Taishō Great Flood and typhoons in 1934, 1935, 1953, 1961 and 1965 — until river-improvement work on the Yamashina River following Typhoon No. 13 of 1953 built up the embankments. As part of that project the station itself was relocated onto the embankment in March 1966 (Chūshojima-bound platform on the 6th, Uji-bound platform on the 20th), and flooding has been essentially eliminated since.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Although the Keihan Rokujizō Station shares a name with the Subway/JR Rokujizō Station roughly 150 m away on the opposite (east) side of the Yamashina River, the Keihan station is in Fushimi Ward of Kyoto City while the other two stations sit across the river in Uji City.