Mototanaka

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Mototanaka Station opened on 27 September 1925 as a stop on the Kyoto Dentō-operated Eizan Heitan Line, originally located about 100 metres closer to Demachiyanagi than its present site. The station passed to Keifuku Electric Railroad on 2 March 1942, moved to its current location on 17 December 1949, and passed to the present operator, Eizan Electric Railway, on 1 April 1986. Located in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, near Kyoto University, the unstaffed station has two staggered side platforms separated by the Higashiōji-dōri road, a legacy of the years when the line crossed the Kyoto City Tram tracks at grade here.

From 1949 to 1955 Kyoto City Trams ran through to Yamabana (now Takaragaike) via a connecting curve here, dropping passengers at Kyoto Keirin race meetings; remnants of the connecting track survived in the pavement until the 1978 abolition of the tram line.