Tambabashi

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Tambabashi Station opened on 20 June 1910 as Momoyama on the Keihan Main Line, two months after the rest of the line, and was renamed on 29 July 1913 to avoid confusion with the access station for Emperor Meiji's mausoleum. From 21 December 1945 the wartime-merged Keihanshin Kyūkō absorbed Nara Electric Railway's adjacent Horiuchi station to give Nara Electric — and eventually Kintetsu — through running over Keihan tracks; that operation lasted until 20 December 1968, when the lines were separated and Kinki-Nihon-Tambabashi Station became independent (renamed Kintetsu-Tambabashi in March 1970). With the 1 June 1987 timetable change and the move to eight-car trains, the internal level crossing at the north gate was replaced by an underground passage and the platforms were extended northwards. Tambabashi became an all-day limited-express stop on 1 July 2000, and accessibility work completed in 2019 renewed the station toilets and added a multipurpose accessible toilet.

The connecting track that let Nara Electric Railway — and later Kintetsu — trains run onto the Keihan line was begun in August 1944, during the Pacific War, and was assembled partly from points and signalling equipment transferred from Arashiyama Station; it was not completed until December 1945, after the war had ended, and through running began on 21 December 1945.