Kintetsu-Tambabashi Station

Kintetsu-Tambabashi Station (近鉄丹波橋駅, Kintetsu Tanbabashi-eki) is a train station on the Kintetsu Kyoto Line in Fushimi, Kyoto, Japan. It is closely connected by a sheltered pedestrian bridge to Tambabashi Station on the Keihan Electric Railway Keihan Line.

Lines

• Kintetsu Corporation
  • Kyoto Line

Layout

The station has two side platforms and two tracks.

1	■Kyoto Line	for Yamato-Saidaiji, Nara, Tenri, Yamato-Yagi and Kashiharajingu-mae
2	■Kyoto Line	for Takeda, Kokusaikaikan and Kyoto

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)

• 12 trains to Kintetsu-Kyoto, of which:
  • 4 are Limited expresses and run non-stop
  • 4 are expresses and call at Takeda and Tōji
  • 4 are Local
• 4 trains to Kokusaikaikan on the Kyoto Subway Karasuma Line, of which:
  • 2 are express and call at Takeda, then all stations on the Karasuma Line
  • 2 are Local

(It may be faster to catch the first available train to Takeda and change there)

Down trains (towards Shin-Tanabe, Nara, Tenri and Kashihara)

• 1 Limited express to Kashikojima, calling at Yamato-Saidaiji, Yamato-Yagi (Osaka Line platforms), Haibara, Nabari, Iga-Kanbe, Ise-Nakagawa, Matsusaka, Iseshi, Uji-yamada, Isuzugawa, Toba, Shima-Isobe and Ugata
• 1 Limited express to Kashihara-jingū-mae, calling at Yamato-Saidaiji and Yamato-Yagi (Kashihara Line platforms)
• 2 Limited expresses to Kintetsu-Nara, calling 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
• 1 express to Tenri, calling at Momoyama-Goryō-mae, Ōkubo, Shin-Tanabe, Shin-Hōsono, Takanohara, Yamato-Saidaiji, Kintetsu-Kōriyama and Hirahata, then all stations
• 3 expresses to Kintetsu-Nara, calling at Momoyama-Goryō-mae, Ōkubo, Shin-Tanabe, Shin-Hōsono, Takanohara, Yamato-Saidaiji and Shin-Ōmiya
• 6 Locals to Shin-Tanabe, of which:
  • 4 continue to Yamato-Saidaiji

History

• 1928 - Horiuchi Station (堀内駅) 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 although the Nara Line did not have a station between Fushimi and Momoyama Stations. 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 World War II. The crossovers were removed after the end of through services in 1968, but the traces can be easily discovered.

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Kintetsu Kyoto Line
Fushimi		Local		Momoyamagoryō-mae
Takeda		Semi-Express		Momoyamagoryō-mae
Takeda		Express		Momoyamagoryō-mae
Kyoto		Limited Express		Takanohara (Departing from Kyoto at and after 6:30 p.m.) Yamato-Saidaiji

External links

• Kintetsu-Tambabashi (Kintetsu website) (Japanese)
• Transition in Railroad Tracks around Tanbabashi Station (Japanese)