History
Kōdo Station opened on 5 July 1954 as an intermediate stop between Shin-Tanabe and Miyamaki on the Nara Electric Railway. In 1963 the Nara Electric Railway merged into Kintetsu and the station became part of the Kintetsu Kyoto Line. An overhead station building was constructed on 16 September 1986, and platform extensions completed on 15 March 2000 allowed six-car trains to stop. An elevator entered service on 15 February 2005 and the PiTaPa IC card was introduced on 1 April 2007. The station, numbered B17, serves the Kyotanabe campuses of Doshisha University and its sister institutions, with very heavy student traffic.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Most express trains pass through, but a small number of Kyoto-bound Kintetsu-Miyazu expresses make scheduled stops at Kōdo to accommodate Doshisha University commuters.