Yamashina Station (山科駅) is in Yamashina Ward, Kyoto City. West Japan Railway Company (JR West), Keihan Electric Railway and the Kyoto City Subway each have stations here. The JR station opened on 1 August 1921.
History
The first station, opened on 18 August 1879, was south of the present station. Later the old line site was used for the Meishin Expressway. On 15 August 1912 the Keihan Kyoto-Shinkyō tram line opened between Sanjō-ōhashi and Fudanotsuji (札ノ辻), with a Bishamondō stop. On 1 August 1921 the present station opened between Ōtsu and Kyoto on the Tōkaidō Line as a general station, after a route change, and the old station closed. On 13 August 1921 it was renamed Yamashina-Ekimae (山科駅前).
On 1 February 1925 the station became a stop on the Keihan Keishin Line. On 12 April 1934 the station was moved a short distance toward Kyoto, and a passing track was built, so it became an island-platform station with 2 faces 4 tracks. On 1 October 1943 the station became a stop of the Keihan-Hanshin Express Railway. On 1 December 1949 the company was separated, and the station became a Keihan Electric Railway stop. On 1 April 1953 it was renamed Keihan Yamashina.
On 20 August 1955 an east ticket gate was added on the JR side. In March 1966 the present station building was built. On 1 October 1971 freight handling ended. In 1973 the platforms were reduced to side platforms. On 20 July 1974 the Kosei Line opened between here and Ōtsu-Shiotsu. On 1 November 1986 the station became a stop for the Shinkaisoku. On 1 April 1987 it became part of JR West. On 13 March 1988 the Tōkaidō Line section was given the name Biwako Line.
On 6 April 1994 the east ticket gate became a temporary building. In 1996, with the opening of the Tōzai Line, the east gate was rebuilt and the platform was extended for longer trains. On 12 October 1997 the Kyoto City Subway Tōzai Line opened its Yamashina station with the Nijō-Daigo section. On 22 March 1998 automatic ticket gates came into use. On 30 July 2002 the JR Yamashina NK building opened. On 1 November 2003 ICOCA became usable. On 1 March 2005 the barrier-free work was completed, with lifts, escalators and accessible toilets. On 1 April 2007 PiTaPa became usable.
On 2 May 2013 an abnormal-situation information display came into use. On 12 March 2015 a new approach melody was introduced. On 17 March 2018 station numbering was introduced. The station marked its centenary in 2021 with a poster on 1 August 2021. On 1 November 2022 the ticket gates became unattended. In 2029 the Haruka express is planned to end at Yamashina instead of Kyoto, with a new platform and track.
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