Considering the operation of through-service from the Kyoto area to the area along the Keihan Uji Line, it is supposed that it may be better to branch the line at Fushimi-momoyama Station, located in the center of Fushimi Ward and immediately north of this station, instead of switching back trains at this station, but the following reasons exist for using the present system: private houses and other buildings are already dense on the south side of Fushimi-momoyama Station, and there exist the cost-related problems of moving these houses and the negotiations for the movement would become complicated.
京都方面から京阪宇治線方面への直通運転を考えれば、この駅でスイッチバックするよりも、伏見区の中心地に位置する北隣の伏見桃山駅からそのまま分岐した方が合理的と思われがちだが、同駅南側には既に民家などが密集していて、それを立ち退かせる費用や立ち退き対象の世帯の交渉が煩雑になることなどから、現在の形に至った経緯がある。