Ishiba

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Ishiba Station opened on 1 March 1913 on the Ōtsu Electric Tramway when the initial section from Ōtsu (now Biwako Hamaotsu) to Zeze (now Zeze-Honmachi) entered service. A 1929 incident saw vibration from a passing freight train collapse the station building and injure two passengers. The line and station passed to Biwako Tetsudō Kisen (1927), Keihan (1929), Keihanshin Kyūkō (1943) and back to Keihan (1949). Renaming of the route to the Ishiyama Sakamoto Line followed in 1936. Reconstruction works completed on 26 September 1965 moved the station to its present alignment; staffed hours were trimmed in 2003 and the stop is now unstaffed.

Before Keihan's Ishiba, a different Ishiba Station stood on the government railway's Baba–Ōtsu section, opened on 15 July 1880; its passenger business was abolished in 1889 in favour of freight alone, revived in 1898, and the station — by then part of the Ōtsu Line — was abolished on 1 March 1913, the day the tramway opened, with the route redesignated a Tōkaidō Main Line freight branch.