History
Makino Station opened on 15 April 1910 with the Keihan Main Line. The station was relocated on 7 February 1911; the on-street section about 100 metres on the Kyoto side was separated from road traffic in July 1931. The 1 October 1943 wartime merger placed it under Keihanshin Kyūkō Electric Railway, then the 1 December 1949 corporate split returned it to Keihan Electric Railway. The Osaka-side approach was elevated and curve-eased (400 R to 1000 R) between February and November 1969, the underground station building and pedestrian subway were completed on 14 June 1970, and elevators were added on 1 September 1994. The station-front plaza was completed on 1 April 2012 with a new bus rotary and an additional elevator.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-10.
Notes
Among Keihan Main Line double-track stations served only by local and sub-express services, Makino had the highest boarding-and-alighting figure outside of the line-boundary station of Kayashima even though it is bypassed by all express trains, reflecting the cluster of universities — Osaka Dental University and Kansai Medical University — and the dense Hirakata residential catchment.