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is an agency of the city government of
Kyoto Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the c ...
,
Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...
that operates municipal subways and city buses within the city. Previously, it also operated trams and trolley buses.


Subway

The
Kyoto Municipal Subway The , also known as Kyoto City Subway, is the rapid transit network in the city of Kyoto, Japan. Operated by the Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau, it has two lines. Lines The Kyoto Municipal Subway is made up of two lines: the long, 15 ...
operates the following two lines: *
Karasuma Line The is one of the two lines of the Kyoto Municipal Subway operated by Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau in Kyoto, Japan. On maps, diagrams and signboards, the line is colored green, and its stations are given numbers following the letter " ...
* Tōzai Line


Bus

The are major mean of public transport in Kyoto. The buses have been operating since 1928. Besides the regular commuter routes, the city bus co-operated the city's "Regular Tour Bus" with
Keihan Bus The is a bus company within the Keihan Group which was established on 22 July 1922 as Momoyama Motor Co.,Ltd.(''桃山自動車株式会社'') of the Keihan Electric Railway bus department. And, service areas are which are run by Keihan Elect ...
.


Tram

Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau operated the until 1978. Kyoto Electric Railway (
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 structu ...
) opened in 1895 as the first electric streetcar in Japan in commercial operation. The city government launched separate network of streetcars of in 1912, which absorbed the lines of Kyoto Electric Railway in 1918. Subsequently, the narrow gauge lines were closed, rebuilt in standard gauge, or remained as is (Kitano Line). In its peak of the 1960s, the network was as follows: *Loop line **Gaishū Line (Loop on Higashiyama, Kujō, Nishiōji, Kitaōji streets) *East-West lines **Imadegawa Line **Marutamachi Line **Shijō Line **Shichijō Line *North-South lines **Senbon Line **Karasuma Line **Kawaramachi Line **Shirakawa Line **Fushimi Line **Kitano Line (narrow gauge, closed in 1961) Because of increasing congestion of road traffic, the tram was abolished in 1978. Part of disused cars were sold to other cities in Japan. As of 2010,
Hiroshima Electric Railway is a Japanese transportation company established on June 18, 1910, that operates streetcars and buses in and around Hiroshima Prefecture. It is known as for short. The company's rolling stock includes an eclectic range of trams manufactur ...
and
Iyo Railway The is the main transport provider in Matsuyama, Ehime, Shikoku, Japan. The company operates railway, tram, and bus lines, and also has many subsidiaries, which include a bank, department stores, travel agencies, and various other businesses. H ...
still operate ex-Kyoto tram cars. One of the cars transferred to
Hankai Tramway is a company which owns two tramway lines in the cities of Osaka and Sakai, Osaka, Japan. The parent company is Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd. Lines Current *Hankai Line (Ebisucho - Hamadera eki-mae) 14.1 km * Uemachi Line (Tennoji eki ...
is now preserved at
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in
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.


Trolley bus

Between 1932 and 1969, the bureau also operated the Umezu Line, a trolley bus service connecting Shijō Ōmiya (Hankyu Ōmiya Station) and Matsuobashi.


Public relations

The bureau has had events that promote increased ridership of their transit system. In 2013, "
Get on! Kyoto City Subway is a Japanese multimedia advertising campaign produced by the Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau since 2013. History The origin of the project, a campaign to increase Kyoto Municipal Subway passengers by 50 thousand, started in 2011. At tha ...
" campaign with anime-style characters began. The characters and logo are also used for Kyoto City Bus.


See also

*
List of metro systems This list of metro systems includes electrified rapid transit train systems worldwide. In some parts of the world, metro systems are referred to as subways, U-Bahn or undergrounds. , 205 cities in 61 countries have a metro system. The Londo ...


References


External links


Kyoto City Bus & Subway Information Guide
- Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau
PDF of Kyoto Bus Routes
Intermodal transport authorities in Japan * Transport in Kyoto {{Asia-metro-stub