History
Ogura Station opened on 3 November 1928 as a station of the Nara Electric Railway on the same day the Momoyamagoryōmae–Saidaiji (now Yamato-Saidaiji) section came into service, in Kaguraden, Ogura-chō, Uji, Kyoto. It was renamed Naraden Ogura Station no later than 1 April 1930. Upper and lower passing tracks were installed in December 1962, and on 1 October 1963 the company was merged into Kintetsu, the station becoming part of the Kintetsu Kyoto Line and reverting to its original name. The passing tracks were retired in December 1984 once the new passing facility at neighbouring Mukaijima Station came into service. PiTaPa IC card use began on 1 April 2007. The east-side ticket gates were unstaffed from 2021, and the west-side gates moved to off-peak-only staffing from 10 January 2024. On 2 October 2024, in conjunction with the opening of the Nintendo Museum on the site of the former Nintendo Uji Ogura Plant, the station gained the subsidiary name "Nintendo Museum Mae".
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Ogura was originally planned as a junction: under Nara Electric Railway, a branch was intended to run from here to Keihan Uji Station, and from 1929 a second branch from Uji-Ogura toward Tamatsukuri in Osaka — proposed as the company's fourth Keihan-area intercity route — held a construction licence. Neither was ever built, and the Tamatsukuri-line licence lapsed in 1967 after the Kintetsu merger.