History
Ōkubo Station opened on 3 November 1928 when the Nara Electric Railway inaugurated its Momoyamagoryōmae–Saidaiji (now Yamato-Saidaiji) section, at Hirono-chō Nishiura, Uji, Kyoto, as a ground-level station with two opposed side platforms. It passed to Kintetsu through corporate merger on 1 October 1963, becoming part of the Kintetsu Kyoto Line. Elevation works began on 20 September 1984 to remove the level crossings on Kyoto Prefectural Route 15 (Uji–Yodo), where chronic congestion had developed; the down line was elevated on 15 October 1987 and the up line on 22 October 1987, at which time the station was relocated about 130 metres toward Kyoto and converted into a two-island, four-track layout for passing operations. PiTaPa IC cards came into use on 1 April 2007, and barrier-free improvements including an accessible toilet were completed on 7 June 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Ōkubo is the third-busiest intermediate station on the Kintetsu Kyoto Line, behind Kintetsu Tambabashi and Takanohara — and it is one of the line's express-passing stations, so timetables routinely have semi-express and local trains there yielding to express, and express trains overtaking limited-express services. Between Ōkubo and Kyoto, none of the other passing-capable stations (Mukaijima, Kamitobaguchi) stop the express, so express services arrive at Kyoto ahead of the limited expresses on this section.