According to the record of Higashi Shiokoji-mura Village which used be where the station was standing, parts of the Odoi mound in this neighborhood were dismantled before the railway was opened in 1877.
また駅の位置にあった東塩小路村の記録によると、1877年（明治10年）の鉄道開通に先立ちこの地域の御土居は取り壊されたという。