History
Minase Station opened on 16 May 1939 as Sakurai-no-eki Station on the Keihan Electric Railway Shin-Keihan Line, between Kamimaki and Ōyamazaki. After Keihan's wartime merger, it passed to Keihanshin Express Railway (now Hankyu Railway) on 1 October 1943 and took the name Minase on 1 January 1948. The Shin-Keihan Line was renamed the Kyoto Main Line in December 1949. Elevation works completed on 29 December 1963 placed the station on a viaduct running parallel to the Tōkaidō Shinkansen; during construction in 1963 the station temporarily borrowed the Shinkansen viaduct for its platforms. Eight-car platforms came into use on 24 March 2001, and barrier-free works finished on 16 March 2011. Station number HK-74 was introduced on 21 December 2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's original name commemorated the medieval Sakurai-no-eki post station nearby, the setting of the Sakurai parting between Kusunoki Masashige and his son Masatsura — a story that drew large pre-war pilgrim crowds through the station.