Fushimi Station (Kyoto)

Fushimi Station 伏見駅
File:Fushimi stn Kintetsu.jpg
Location	Fushimi, Kyoto, Kyoto Japan
Operated by	Kintetsu
Line(s)	Kyoto Line
History
Opened	1928

Fushimi Station (伏見駅, Fushimi-eki) is a railway station on the Kintetsu Kyoto Line located in Fushimi, Kyoto, Japan.

Lines

• Kintetsu Corporation
  • Kyoto Line

Building

The elevated station has two side platforms with two tracks.

Platforms

1	■ Kintetsu Kyoto Line	Southbound (For Shin-Tanabe, Yamato-Saidaiji, Nara, and Kashiharajingu-mae)
2	■ Kintetsu Kyoto Line	Northbound (For Takeda, Toji, and Kyoto)

History

1895-1921 Kyoto Inari Fushimi Momoyama

1921-1928 Kyoto Inari x20px Fushimi Momoyama

The location of the station was a site of former Fushimi Station on the government-run Nara Line railway. Since a reroute of the Nara Line to the present route (via Inari Station) in 1921, Fushimi Station had been a terminal of a freight branch until its closure about two months before the opening of the present station.

• September 5, 1895 - The station opens as a station of Nara Railway
• February 7, 1905 - Nara Railway merges into Kansai Railway
• October 1, 1907 - Kansai Railway is nationalized
• August 1, 1921 - The line between Kyoto and Fushimi closes; Fushimi Station survives as a freight station
• September 3, 1928 - The freight line between Fushimi and Momoyama closes and Fushimi Station closes
• November 15, 1928 - The station opens as a station of Nara Electric Railroad
• October 1, 1963 - NER merges and the station becomes part of Kintetsu

Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Kintetsu Kyoto Line
Express: no stop
Semi-Express: no stop
Takeda		Local		Kintetsu-Tambabashi