Even some local trains had to pass this station without stopping during certain time zones when it was a so-called bar line station with no side or refuge track (circumstances were the same at Yoshitomi Station, Takatsu Station and Fuchigaki Station, all of which are located in Kyoto Prefecture).
棒線駅時代は、普通列車でも時間帯によっては通過する列車があった（これは吉富駅(京都府)や高津駅(京都府)、それに淵垣駅も同じであった）。