At one time, when the trains carried their destination plates on the front face, the trains departing from Uji for Sanjo used the plate on which the two Chinese characters that together indicated Sanjo were deliberately placed with a space in between as '三　条'　(san-jo) in order to distinguish them from those proceeding from the direction of Osaka.
方向板を正面に掲出していた頃、宇治発の三条行きの方向板は大阪方面からのそれと区別するため、「三」と「条」の間が開いたものを使用していた。