Keihan-ishiyama

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Keihan-ishiyama Station serves the Keihan Electric Railway's Ishiyama Sakamoto Line in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, 1.6 kilometres from the line's terminus at Ishiyamadera. It opened on 12 January 1914 as Ishiyama-ekimae Station (literally "the station in front of Ishiyama Station") when the Ōtsu Electric Tramway opened its line from Betsuho (now Awazu) to this point, and it was the terminus for only five days: on 17 January the line was extended to Karahashi-mae and it became a through stop. It joined the Biwako Tetsudō Kisen merger in 1927 and the Keihan group in 1929. The station was renamed to its current Keihan-ishiyama on 1 April 1953. On 31 March 2005 it was relocated alongside the JR West Ishiyama Station, its two side platforms replaced by a single island platform in a bridge-style station building with automatic ticket gates; the two stations are linked by a concourse.

Adjacent JR Ishiyama Station was the site of the 25 April 1930 Tōkaidō Line Ishiyama Station express-train derailment: a Tokyo-to-Shimonoseki down express derailed and overturned at a sharp turnout when running at high speed to make up time; thirteen people were injured, and a Tokyo newspaper put out an embarrassing extra edition reporting it as 'Express train derailed and overturned; many dead and injured', which turned out to be false.