This station is considered a unique case where the same line of the same company makes a stop on the ground as well as underground, because the trains of the Kintetsu Kyoto Line depart and arrive on the ground while the trains that go through to the Kyoto Municipal Subway Karasuma Line from the Kintetsu Line make their stop underground.
当駅は、地上の駅に近鉄京都線が発着し、地下の駅に近鉄から京都市営烏丸線へ直通する電車が停車するため、地上と地下に同じ事業者・同じ路線の車両が停車する珍しい駅である。