Fushimi-Inari

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Fushimi-Inari Station opened on 15 April 1910 as Inari-Shindō on the Keihan Main Line, in Fushimi Ward, Kyōto, and was renamed Inari Station on 16 December the same year. It became an express stop in 1916 and was renamed Inari-Jinja-mae in 1939. The wartime merger of 1 October 1943 placed it under Keihanshin Kyūkō Dentetsu, and on 1 January 1948 it took its present name, Fushimi-Inari, following the renaming of the shrine itself as Fushimi Inari Taisha; the station returned to Keihan Electric Railway when that company was separated out again in December 1949. Until 1970 the line crossed the Kyoto City Tram's Inari Line on the level just south of the station, and that crossing was the scene of several serious collisions, including ones in 1931 and 1934 that wrecked tramcars and caused multiple casualties. The platform pillars are painted vermilion in keeping with the senbon-torii of Fushimi Inari Taisha, and the station refurbishment begun in 2017 was completed at the end of that year.

During the wartime years the vermilion paint of the station was replaced with a more discreet colour to deny bombers an easy aerial landmark.