History
Kangetsukyō Station opened on June 1, 1913 with the Keihan Uji Line in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto. Its name comes from the nearby Kangetsukyō bridge over the Uji River, said to mark the site of a moon-viewing banquet held by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Severe flooding from the 1917 Taishō Great Flood prompted the conversion of the once mixed-traffic alignment east of the station into a dedicated right-of-way. Corporate restructuring placed the station under Keihanshin Kyūkō (later Hankyū) in 1943 and then back under Keihan Electric Railway in 1949. Ticket-machine sales ended on January 25, 2024, leaving the unstaffed station with IC fare gates only.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station name 'Kangetsukyō' (moon-viewing bridge) is reputedly drawn from a moon-viewing banquet that Toyotomi Hideyoshi is said to have hosted nearby at Gekkyō-in.