History
Uji Station opened on 1 June 1913 as the terminus of the Keihan Uji Line on its inauguration day, at Otsukata, Uji, Kyoto. Freight services began on 5 September 1914 and continued from track 3 until the 1960s. On 1 October 1943 the station passed to Keihanshin Express Electric Railway (Hankyū) through corporate merger, and back to today's Keihan Electric Railway on 1 December 1949 when the companies were separated. Track 3 was retired on 29 July 1964 and a programmed-train-control (PTC) system entered service on 28 May 1967. Relocation works for the station began in December 1991 in conjunction with the widening of Kyoto Prefectural Route 7 and the development of a bus terminal; the new station, set back 180 m toward Mimuroto, came into use on 17 June 1995. The new circular building was designed by Hiroyuki Wakabayashi — also the designer of Nankai's Rapi:t — and on 1 October 1996 it became the first private-railway station to win a Good Design Award. The adjoining Keihan Uji Building, housing the station concourse and commercial tenants, opened on 5 August 1997, and the station was selected to the first Best 100 Stations of the Kinki Region on 19 September 2000.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Uji is the only station on the Keihan network whose name omits the suffix "city" (市) where the station serves the central municipality through which the line passes — the company's standing naming convention is "municipality + 市", and since 2019 (when Yawatashi was renamed Iwashimizu Hachimangū) Uji has been the sole exception.