Station

Kurama

鞍馬

View on the live map →

Kurama
Photo: ja:User:Rsa · CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)

Timetable information

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Location

History

Kurama Station is the northern terminus of the Eizan Electric Railway Kurama Line in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto. A temporary station 400 metres back along the line opened on October 20, 1929 as Kurama Provisional Station of the Kurama Electric Railway, replaced by the present station on December 20 of the same year. The line was absorbed into Keifuku Electric Railroad in 1942 and transferred to the present operator on April 1, 1986. The temple-styled wooden station building was rebuilt to coincide with the opening of the Keihan Ōtō Line, and the platform is an island serving two tracks. A tengu sculpture installed in the station forecourt in 2002 was replaced by a second-generation figure on October 18, 2019.

Notes

A preserved cab section of a Dena 21-series electric car and one of its driving wheels are displayed in the station precincts, and the coffered ceiling of the station building carries ventilation vents at its four corners stylised as the kanji "Kyō".

Sources