Kisaichi

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Kisaichi Station opened on 10 July 1929 as the terminus of the Shigi-Ikoma Electric Railway's Hirakata Line, in what is now Katano, Osaka Prefecture. Ownership passed to Katano Denki Tetsudō in May 1939, to Keihanshin Kyūkō Denki Tetsudō in May 1945, and to the present Keihan Electric Railway in December 1949 when the companies separated. A new station building entered service on 13 October 1979, and the line from Kisaichi as far as Mori signal station, beyond Kawachi-Mori, was doubled in September 1992, with a further rebuilding of the station building at the same time. The station was named one of the "100 Stations of Kinki" in 2002. Today it operates two opposed ground-level side platforms terminating against buffer stops, and is the terminus of the Keihan Katano Line, station KH67.

The name 私市 is one of Japan's notoriously hard-to-read station names — read "Kisaichi" rather than the apparent "Watashi-Ichi". From the autumn 2003 timetable revision until March 2013 the station was the Katano Line end of a pair of services named after the Tanabata legend: the K-Limited Express Orihime on weekday mornings and the semi-express Hikoboshi on weekday evenings.