↑Shimanoseki ↓Miidera Biwako-Hamaōtsu Station (びわ湖浜大津駅, Biwako-Hamaōtsu-eki) is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway company Keihan Electric Railway.

[citation needed] Biwako-Hamaōtsu Station was opened on July 15, 1880 as Ōtsu Station (大津駅, Ōtsu-eki) on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) Tōkaidō Main Line .

[citation needed] The private Ōtsu Electric Railway began operations to the station in 1913, the same year that the Tōkaidō Main Line was rerouted to bypass this station and JGR operations ceased.

[citation needed] It was renamed again to its present name on March 17, 2018.

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