Kintetsu-Tambabashi Station

Kintetsu-Tambabashi Station (近鉄丹波橋駅, Kintetsu Tanbabashi-eki) is a railway station on Kintetsu Railway's Kyoto Line in Fushimi, Kyoto, Japan.

The typical hourly weekday off-peak service from this station is: Up trains (towards Kyoto and Kokusaikaikan) (It may be faster to catch the first available train to Takeda and change there) Down trains (towards Shin-Tanabe, Nara, Tenri and Kashihara) 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.

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.

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.

Track layout, including Keihan Line, as of 1967 (click to expand)