Sakamoto-hieizanguchi

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Sakamoto-Hieizanguchi Station opened on 13 August 1927 as Sakamoto Station, on the Lake Biwa Railway-and-Ship Company line opened from Matsunobaba. The line passed to Keihan Electric Railway on 11 April 1929 upon corporate merger. On 25 June 1930 the planned extension 0.4 km north of the station was officially cancelled. In wartime restructuring the line became part of Keihanshin Kyūkō Electric Railway (today's Hankyu) on 1 October 1943, and on 31 March 1945 the Anoo – present-station section was singled to provide metal for the war effort. After the war Keihan was demerged on 1 December 1949 and the station returned to Keihan Electric Railway. The section was redoubled and the new station building opened on 30 September 1997, and the station was selected for the first 'Top 100 Stations of Kansai' on 19 September 2000. PiTaPa IC ticketing began on 1 April 2007. The station was renamed Sakamoto-Hieizanguchi on 17 March 2018 to encourage Mount Hiei tourist traffic from the Sakamoto side, in symmetry with Eizan Electric Railway's Yase-Hieizanguchi on the Kyoto side. The station carries number OT21 and is the northernmost of all Keihan stations.

Until being renamed in 2018, the station was simply 'Sakamoto'. A rail-form monument, made in 1997, stands at the platform end of the station building opened that year.