History
Hashimoto Station opened on 15 April 1910 in Hashimoto Nakanochō, Yawata, Kyoto, on the same day the Keihan Main Line was inaugurated; it is the first station in Kyoto Prefecture from the Osaka end. Services were disrupted by the 1917 Great Taishō Flood (reopened 14 October 1917), the Muroto Typhoon of 21 September 1934 (reopened 27 September), the Uji River flood of 11 August 1935 (reopened 13 August), and Typhoon Tess on 26 September 1953 (reopened 1 October). On 1 October 1943 the station passed to Keihanshin Express Electric Railway through corporate merger, and back to today's Keihan Electric Railway on 1 December 1949 when the companies were separated. The intra-station level crossing was abolished and a new ticket gate added on the down-line platform on 23 April 1965. The platforms were lengthened for eight-car trains, with rebuilt station buildings, water-flushing toilets and ramp improvements, from 30 January 1993. A platform anomaly-alert system was installed on 14 October 2012, and from 26 January 2023 ticket-vending machines on site were withdrawn — paper-ticket passengers now print a boarding-station certificate from the IC top-up machine and settle the fare at their destination.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The Hashimoto area was a busy unofficial station town on the Osaka–Kyoto road from the days when the Yamazaki Bridge over the Yodo crossed at this point — a ferry replaced the lost bridge until 1962 — and grew into a licensed red-light district, the setting of the sixth act "Hashimoto-no-dan" of the kabuki play Futatsu Chōchō Kuruwa Nikki. There is an account that until the Anti-Prostitution Law took effect on 1 April 1958, the last train of the night out of Hashimoto was packed with returning patrons of the brothels.