History
Matsuiyamate Station opened on 11 March 1989 as part of the electrification of the Katamachi Line (Gakkentoshi Line) between Kizu and Nagao, in the city of Kyōtanabe, Kyoto Prefecture. The station was effectively a petition station: Keihan Electric Railway, then developing the adjacent Keihan Higashi Rose Town residential project, contributed 2.3 billion yen toward construction. Operated by JR West, it sits 17.0 kilometres from the Kizu terminus on two opposed side platforms within a cutting, connected by a station building at ground level. Station numbering was introduced in March 2018, assigning the code JR-H26. The Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office closed on 30 November 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station sits on the planned route of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Kyoto, and a Hokuriku Shinkansen intermediate station near Matsuiyamate was formally adopted in March 2017, with the platforms now expected to be built underground.