is a

tram stop A tram stop, tram station, streetcar stop, or light rail station is a place designated for a tram, streetcar, or light rail vehicle to stop so passengers can board or alight it. Generally, tram stops share most characteristics of bus stops, bu ...

in Ukyo-ku,

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, and the western terminus of the

Randen Arashiyama Line is a railroad company based in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan (but with offices in Fukui Prefecture) in operation since March 2, 1942. It is a parent company of Keifuku Bus and Kyoto Bus, and an affiliated company of Keihan Electric Railway, which o ...

that begins at . The station includes a small shopping arcade, outdoor eating areas, a foot bath, a garden featuring cherry and maple trees, as well as the "Kimono Forest," a collection of 600 kimono gowns wrapped around poles with LED lighting inside developed by the interior designer Yasumichi Morita.

History

Arashiyama station opened on March 25, 1910, as the terminal station for the Arashiyama Railway connecting Arashiyama with Shijō-Ōmiya. The station was reconstructed in 1929 to accommodate the now-defunct Atagosan Railway. This line started at Arashiyama and headed westward towards Kiyotaki via the Kiyotaki Tunnel, where passengers would transfer to a

narrow-gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structur ...

funicular A funicular (, , ) is a type of cable railway system that connects points along a railway track laid on a steep slope. The system is characterized by two counterbalanced carriages (also called cars or trains) permanently attached to opposite en ...

to proceed their journey to the top of Mt. Atago. In 1944 the Atagosan Railway was abandoned, just two years after the Keifuku Electric Railroad seized operation of the Arashiyama Line. In 2002 the "Arashiyama Hannari Hokkori Square" plaza was built, with the addition of the iconic foot bath in 2004. The station was completely renovated in 2007 and 2013. Kyoto-Arashiyama-Station-Keifuku

Station layout

The station consists of three platforms at ground level, with a wheelchair-accessible concourse and ticket barriers. All platforms service trams bound for . Tracks 1 and 2 are primarily used.

Adjacent stations

Surrounding area

* Tenryū-ji Temple * Nonomiya Shrine * Arashiyama Bamboo Grove * Kogenji Temple * Kyoto Arashiyama Orgel Museum * Hogonin Temple *

Iwatayama Monkey Park Iwatayama Monkey Park (Japanese: 嵐山モンキーパーク, ''Arashiyama Monkī Pāku'') is a commercial park located in Arashiyama in Kyoto, Japan. The park is on Mt Arashiyama, on the opposite side of the Ōi River as the train station. It is ...

* Okochi Sanzo Villa * Saga-Torimoto *

Hozu River The is a part of Katsura River in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The river begins in the mountains near Kameoka, a town northwest of Kyoto City. It snakes into the Arashiyama section of western Kyoto before changing its name to Katsura River. The H ...

Togetsukyo Bridge is a district on the western outskirts of Kyoto, Japan. It also refers to the mountain across the Ōi River, which forms a backdrop to the district. Arashiyama is a nationally designated Historic Site and Place of Scenic Beauty. Notable to ...

Hankyu , trading as , is a Japanese private railway company that provides commuter and interurban service to the northern Kansai region and is one of the flagship properties of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., in turn part of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group ...

Arashiyama Station *

JR West , also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and ...

Saga-Arashiyama Station , known as Saga Station until 1994, is a railway station on the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) Sanin Main Line (Sagano Line) in Ukyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The Sagano Scenic Railway also starts here. Saga-Arashiyama Station is also one of th ...

Sagano Scenic Railway The or Sagano Sightseeing Railway is a wholly owned subsidiary of West Japan Railway Company (JR West) that operates the , Sagano Sight-seeing Line, or in Kyoto. The line uses superseded tracks of the Sagano Line (officially a portion of the ...

Torokko Saga Station is the first train station on the Sagano Scenic Railway, Sagano Scenic Line, a sightseeing train that follows the picturesque Hozukyo Ravine of the old JR West Sagano Line. It is located in Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan. Station layout The stati ...

References

External links

* * {{Randen Arashiyama Line Stations of Keifuku Electric Railroad Railway stations in Japan opened in 1910