History
Chūshojima Station opened on 15 April 1910 with the Keihan Main Line, in Fushimi Ward, Kyōto, and from 1 June 1913 also served as the starting point of the Uji Line. From 25 August 1914 the Kyoto Electric Railway Fushimi Tram Line reached the station, making it a transfer point until that tram line was abandoned in April 1970. The station became an express stop in 1916, weathered the Taishō flood of 1917 and the Muroto Typhoon of 1934, and during the Pacific War a freight siding linking the station to Fushimi Port was built — completed in 1947, then dismantled by 1951. A new station building was opened in May 1975, replaced again in June 1984, and all limited-express trains have stopped here since the timetable revision of 1 July 2000.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station is named for an island that once stood between branches of the Uji River where the warlord Wakisaka Yasuharu, holder of the Chinese-style court title "Chūsho", maintained his residence in the Bunroku era.