is a

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located in the city of

Ōtsu 270px, Ōtsu City Hall is the capital city of Shiga Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 343,991 in 153,458 households and a population density of 740 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . History Ōtsu is ...

Shiga Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan in the Kansai region of Honshu. Shiga Prefecture has a population of 1,398,972 as of 1 February 2025 and has a geographic area of . Shiga Prefecture borders Fukui Prefecture to the north, Gifu Prefecture to th ...

, Japan, operated by the private railway company

Hieizan Railway The , officially the , is a Japanese funicular line in Ōtsu, Shiga. It is the only line operates. The line opened in 1927, as an eastern route to Enryaku-ji, a famous temple on Mount Hiei. This is the longest funicular line in Japan. Basic dat ...

Lines

Cable Enryakuji Station is the upper terminus of the Sakamoto Cable, and is 2.0 kilometers from the lower terminus of the line at .

Station layout

The station consists of a single

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, and when it is crowded, the doors on both sides of the train may be opened to drop passengers. The station building was built in 1925 and is a two-story Western-style structure with a ticket office, a waiting room, operator room, and a crew waiting room on the first floor. There used to be a guest room on the second floor, but now it is open to the public as a gallery, and observation terrace. The station building received protection by the national government as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2017.

Adjacent stations

History

Cable Enryakuji Station was opened on March 15, 1927, as . Operation were suspended from March 19, 1945, to Augusts 7, 1946. The station was renamed January 15, 1974.

Surrounding area

Enryaku-ji is a Tendai monastery located on Mount Hiei in Ōtsu, overlooking Kyoto. It was first founded in 788 during the early Heian period (794–1185) by Saichō (767–822), also known as Dengyō Daishi, who introduced the Tendai sect of Mahayana ...

Mount Hiei is a mountain to the northeast of Kyoto, lying on the border between the Kyoto and Shiga Prefectures, Japan. The temple of Enryaku-ji, the first outpost of the Japanese Tendai (Chin. Tiantai) sect of Buddhism, was founded atop Mount Hiei by ...

References

External links

Sakamoto Cable official home page
Railway stations in Shiga Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1927 Railway stations in Ōtsu Registered Tangible Cultural Properties {{Shiga-railstation-stub