is a passenger

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

located in the city of

Kameoka is a city in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 87,518 in 29,676 households and a population density of 390 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Kameoka abuts Kyoto to the east and is loca ...

, Kyoto Prefecture,

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, operated by

West Japan Railway Company , 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 ...

(JR West).

Lines

Kameoka Station is served by the

San'in Main Line The is a railway line in western Japan, which connects Kyoto and Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It is the major railway line of the San'in region, approximately paralleling the Japan Sea, crossing Kyot ...

(

Sagano Line The is the popular name for a portion of the Sanin Main Line in the suburbs of Kyoto, Japan. The electrified and double-tracked railway is a commuter rail line in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Metropolitan Area, owned and operated by West Japan Railway ...

), and is located 20.2 kilometers from the terminus of the line at .

Station layout

The station consists of two ground-level

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

s connected by an elevated station building. The station has a ''

Midori no Madoguchi , which stands for ''Multi Access (originally Magnetic-electronic Automatic) seat Reservation System'', is a train ticket reservation system used by the railway companies of former Japanese National Railways, currently Japan Railways Group (JR Grou ...

'' staffed ticket office. Entrances to the station are on the south and north side of the station.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History

Kameoka Station opened on August 15, 1899 when the Kyoto Railway extended the line from to . With the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company. The current station building was completed in 2008.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 8749 passengers daily.

Surrounding area

* Kameoka City Hall * Kameoka City Library * Kyoto Prefectural Kameoka High School * Kameoka City Kameoka Junior High School * Kameoka Municipal Kameoka Elementary School Kameoka Municipal Josai Elementary School

References

External links

Station Official Site
Railway stations in Kyoto Prefecture Sanin Main Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1899 Kameoka, Kyoto {{Kyoto-railstation-stub