Shimanoseki

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Shimanoseki Station opened on 1 March 1913 as a stop on the Otsu Electric Tramway between the original Otsu Station (now Biwako Hamaotsu) and Zeze (now Zeze-Honmachi). Successive corporate mergers transferred it to Biwako Tetsudō Kisen in 1927, Keihan in 1929, Keihanshin Kyūkō (today's Hankyu) in 1943, and finally back to Keihan in 1949. The route became part of the Ishiyama Sakamoto Line in 1936. The station was relocated in 1966; its two side platforms take trains of up to two cars, it sits beside Lake Biwa, and it remains unstaffed today.

When the original tramway opened in 1913, the section through Shimanoseki shared a three-rail gauge with a Tokaido Main Line freight branch, an arrangement that persisted until the freight branch was abolished in November 1969.