Awazu (Shiga)

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Awazu Station (Keihan station number OT04) opened on 1 May 1913 as Beppo (ぺっぽ) Station, the terminus of the Ōtsu Denshakidō (Ōtsu Electric Tramway) line from Zeze (today Zeze-Hommachi), and was originally near the present site of Kawaragahama Station, in Ōtsu, Shiga. The line was extended to Ishiyama-Eki-Mae (today Keihan-Ishiyama) on 12 January 1914, making it a through-station, and on 17 January 1914 it was moved to its present site in Beppo 1-chōme and renamed Awazu (あわづ). It joined Biwako Tetsudō Kisen on 21 January 1927, the Keihan Electric Railway Ishiyama Sakamoto Line on 11 April 1929, Keihanshin Kyūkō Dentetsu (now Hankyu) on 1 October 1943, and returned to Keihan Electric Railway on 1 December 1949 when the companies were separated. From around March 2016 the station has been almost entirely unstaffed except on survey days.

Despite the name "Awazu", the nearest station to Awazu-chō is not this one but the next station, Keihan-Ishiyama. From the closing stage of the Pacific War into the immediate post-war period, freight services ran to the station carrying night soil out of the city of Kyoto.