History
Sembayashi Station opened on 15 April 1910 with the inaugural section of the Keihan Main Line, originally named Morishōji Station and sited about 250 metres west of the present location. The station was relocated to its current position on 14 October 1931 when the line was rebuilt on dedicated right-of-way, renamed Morishōji-Sembayashi later that year, and given its present name Sembayashi on 1 April 1942. Quadruple-tracking through the area was completed in 1933. The station passed through wartime corporate consolidation under Keihanshin Kyūkō Electric Railway from 1943 and reverted to Keihan Electric Railway on 1 December 1949. Platforms were extended for eight-car operation in 1993, and step-free access was added in 1998.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Japan's first Daiei store, "Shufu no Mise Daiei Yakkyoku", opened in 1957 on the Sembayashi Shōtengai shopping street just outside the station — the beginning of the chain that would define postwar mass-market retail in Japan.