History
Higashiyama Station opened on 21 September 1927 as Takeyama, a seasonal stop on the Shigi-Ikoma Electric Railway between Motosanjōguchi and Minami-Ikoma intended for autumn-foliage and mushroom-gathering excursions. It was promoted to a permanent station and renamed Higashiyama on 10 September 1951, and when Kintetsu absorbed the Shigi-Ikoma Electric Railway on 1 October 1964 the stop became part of the Kintetsu Ikoma Line. With suburban development continuing along the line, the station was relocated about 60 metres east on 29 January 1993 as part of a curve-straightening project, gaining a new steel-frame station building and two relative platforms; the section between Higashiyama and Hagi-no-dai was double-tracked on 17 March of the same year. PiTaPa service began on 1 April 2007 and the station was made permanently unstaffed at an unspecified date on or after 1 October 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although the station now has two side platforms, track 1 dead-ends on the Ōji side, so trains in both directions normally use platform 2; platform 1 is reserved for the Ikoma-Higashiyama shuttle services and is closed when no shuttle is operating, making in-station passing impossible.