History
The station opened on 15 April 1910 as Yawata Station alongside the Keihan Main Line itself, in what is now the city of Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture. It was renamed Iwashimizu-Hachimangū-mae on 25 December 1939, Yawatachō on 1 January 1948, and Yawatashi on 1 November 1977. The current name, reflecting its proximity to the Iwashimizu Hachimangū shrine on Otokoyama, was adopted on 1 October 2019, when the station was administratively split from the funicular station (renamed Cable-Hachimangū-guchi). Built as two opposed side platforms, the layout was progressively expanded with passing tracks to two island platforms before the outer tracks were withdrawn between 2009 and 2016, returning it to two opposed side platforms. Station number KH26.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-10.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
After the 2010 barrier-free works, the renovated station building was reimagined with Panasonic LED lighting that uses incandescent-style tented canopies as a tribute to Thomas Edison, whose carbon-filament lamps used bamboo from the slopes of nearby Otokoyama.