For passengers changing trains from Keihan Main Line to Keishin Line (the subway Tozai Line), an announcement in the car gave the destination as 'the direction of Otsu, Ishiyama and Sakamoto' until about 1980s, as 'the direction of Yamashina, Otsu and Lake Biwa,' from around 1990 until the time Keishin Sanjo Station was closed,' and as 'the direction of Otsu and Lake Biwa, or the subway Tozai Line' from 1997 (when Keishin Sanjo Station was closed) until 2003 (Yamashina seems to have been removed because passengers can reach it directly on the Tozai Line).
本線から京津線（地下鉄東西線）への乗り換え案内は、1980年代頃までは「大津、石山、坂本方面」、1990年頃から京津三条駅廃止までは「山科、大津、びわ湖方面」と呼称していたが、同駅が廃止された1997年から2003年の間は「大津、びわ湖方面と、地下鉄東西線」と呼称（山科は東西線で直接行けるため抹消されたと見られる。）。