is a railway station on the Nara Line

Nara Line

The is a commuter rail line in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area, operated by the West Japan Railway Company . Its official termini are Kizu Station in Kizugawa and Kyōto Station in Kyoto, within Kyoto Prefecture; however, all trains continue past Kizu on the Yamatoji Line to Nara Station in...

 of West Japan Railway Company

West Japan Railway Company

, also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group companies and operates in western Honshū. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka.-History:...

 (JR West). It is in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto

Fushimi-ku, Kyoto

is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Famous places in Fushimi include the Fushimi Inari Shrine, with thousands of torii lining the paths up and down a mountain; Fushimi Castle, originally built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, with its rebuilt towers and gold-lined...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

.

Layout

The station has two platforms with two tracks between them.

Near the station

Inari Station serves visitors to several nearby sites. Among these are the major Shinto shrine Fushimi Inari-taisha

Fushimi Inari-taisha

is the head shrine of Inari, located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The shrine sits at the base of a mountain also named Inari, and includes trails up the mountain to many smaller shrines....

 and the Fukakusa campus of Ryukoku University

Ryukoku University

is a private university located in Kyoto, Japan.It was founded as a school for Buddhist monks of the Nishi Hongan-ji denomination in 1639, and became a secularized university in 1876. Professors and students of the university established the famed literary magazine Chūōkōron in 1887. It has three...

. Although transfer is not available, Fukakusa

Fukakusa Station

is a train station located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.-Adjacent stations:...

 and Fushimi-Inari Station

Fushimi-Inari Station

is a train station located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, on the Keihan Electric Railway Keihan Main Line.-Layout:*This station has 2 side platforms with a track each.-Adjacent stations:-See also:*Inari Station...

s on the Keihan Main Line are close by. Students and staff members can access Ritsumeikan Junior & Senior High School and Kyoto Municipal Fushimi Technical High School (the setting of School Wars: HERO

School Wars: HERO

is a 2004 film directed by Japanese film director Ikuo Sekimoto.Set in the mid-1970s, the film is based on the true story of Yoshiharu Yamaguchi, a teacher and former Japanese international rugby union player, who turned-around a failing high school in Kyoto, giving special attention to the rugby...

) from Inari Station.

Adjacent stations

• This station is an additional stop of Miyakoji Rapid Service from January 1 until 4.

Source

This article incorporates material from 稲荷駅 (Inari Eki) in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved January 5, 2008.