is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

Kintetsu Railway , referred to as , is a Japanese passenger railway company, managing infrastructure and operating passenger train service. Its railway system is the largest in Japan, excluding Japan Railways Group. The railway network connects Osaka, Nara, Kyot ...

's Kyoto Line in

Fushimi, Kyoto is one of the eleven Wards of Kyoto, wards in the Municipalities of Japan, city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Famous places in Fushimi include the Fushimi Inari Jinja (shrine), Shrine, with thousands of torii lining the paths up and down ...

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. It is closely connected by a sheltered pedestrian bridge to Tambabashi Station on the

Keihan Electric Railway , known colloquially as the , , or simply , is a major Japanese private railway operator in Osaka, Kyoto, and Shiga Prefectures. The transit network includes seven lines; four main lines with heavy rolling stock, two interurban lines, and a funic ...

Keihan Line.

Lines

** Kyoto Line

Layout

The station has two

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

s and two tracks.

Platforms

Services

All trains, including all limited express trains, call at this station. The typical hourly weekday off-peak service from this station is: Up trains (towards Kyoto and Kokusaikaikan) *10 trains to Kintetsu Kyoto, of which: **3 are limited expresses and run non-stop **3 are expresses and call at Takeda and Tōji **4 are local trains *3 trains to Kokusaikaikan on the Kyoto Subway Karasuma Line, of which: **1 is express and calls at Takeda, then all stations on the Karasuma Line **2 are local trains (It may be faster to catch the first available train to Takeda and change there) Down trains (towards Shin-Tanabe, Nara, Tenri and Kashihara) *2 limited expresses to Kashihara-jingū-mae, calling at Yamato-Saidaiji and Yamato-Yagi, of which: **1 couples with the limited express for Nara and decouples at Yamato-Saidaiji *2 limited expresses to Kintetsu Nara, calling at Yamato-Saidaiji, of which: **1 couples with the limited express for Kashihara-jingū-mae and decouples at Yamato-Saidaiji *2 expresses to Kashihara-jingū-mae, calling at Momoyama-Goryō-mae, Ōkubo, Shin-Tanabe, Shin-Hōsono, Takanohara, Yamato-Saidaiji, Kintetsu Kōriyama, Hirahata, Tawaramoto and Yamato-Yagi, then all stations *2 expresses to Kintetsu Nara, calling at Momoyama-Goryō-mae, Ōkubo, Shin-Tanabe, Shin-Hōsono, Takanohara, Yamato-Saidaiji and Shin-Ōmiya *6 local trains to Shin-Tanabe, of which: **3 continue to Yamato-Saidaiji of which 2 to Kashihara-jingū-mae

History

Rail Track diagram of Tambabashi Station 1967 03 en

*1928 - begins operation as a station of Nara Electric Railway Co., Ltd. *1945 - Nara Electric Railway tracks are connected to Keihan's Tambabashi Station and Horiuchi station is discontinued *1963 - Nara Electric Railway merges into Kintetsu *1967 - Kintetsu platforms reopen for Kintetsu trains (except Keihan-through trains) as a part of integrated Tambabashi Station *1968 - Through trains to Keihan are discontinued, and station's Kintetsu section is renamed to Kintetsu Tambabashi Station *1998 - Promoted to Rapid Express stop *2002 - Promoted to Limited Express stop *2003 - Kyoto Line Rapid Express is discontinued The route of the Kintetsu line north of this station was formerly a track of the

Nara Line The is a commuter rail line in the Osaka–Kobe–Kyoto metropolitan area, operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West). Its official termini are Kizu Station in Kizugawa and Kyōto Station in Kyoto, within Kyoto Prefecture; however ...

although the Nara Line did not have a station between Fushimi and

Momoyama Station is a railway station located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It has the station number "JR-D05". Lines Momoyama Station is served by the Nara Line. Layout The station has one i ...

s. The former Nara Line south of this station to the merging point with the present line was totally removed and cannot be traced. While the areas of the Keihan and Kintetsu stations are limited by Tanbabashi Street to the north and Shimo-Itabashi Street to the south, before the integration of the stations in 1945, the gate of Horiuchi Station was on Shimo-Itabashi Street and the gate of Tambabashi Station was on Tanbabashi Street. Therefore, transferring passengers were recommended to change trains at Momoyamagoryō-mae Station and Fushimi-Momoyama Station, both of which were facing the same Ōtesuji Street, rather than transferring at Horiuchi and Tambabashi. When the integrated station was separated in 1960s, the stations were rebuilt with a connection bridge that provides easy access between Tambabashi and Kintetsu-Tambabashi stations. The physical connection of the Keihan and Nara Electric Railway lines and the integration of the stations were made to provide a redundancy for the railway network in consideration of a possible destruction of railway facilities by enemy attacks although the construction was completed in December 1945, after the end of

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. The crossovers were removed after the end of through services in 1968, but the traces can be easily discovered.

Adjacent stations

References

External links

Station Facilities and Service
(Kintetsu website)

Station Map
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