is a major railway station and transportation hub in Kyōto, Japan. It has Japan's second-largest station building (after

Nagoya Station is a major railway station in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Japan. It is one of the world's largest train stations by floor area (410,000 m2), and houses the headquarters of the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). Much of this space is located in ...

) and is one of the country's largest buildings, incorporating a shopping mall, hotel, movie theater,

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department store, and several local government facilities under one 15-story roof. It also housed the Kyōto City Air Terminal until August 31, 2002.

Lines

Kyoto Station is served by the following railway lines: * ** * ** Tokaido Main Line (

Biwako Line The is the nickname used by the operator of the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) to refer to the portion of the Tōkaidō Main Line (between Maibara Station and Kyoto Station) and the Hokuriku Main Line (between Maibara Station and Nagaham ...

and

JR Kyoto Line The is a commuter rail line in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Metropolitan Area owned and operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). The name applies to the section of the Tōkaidō Main Line between Kyōto Station and Ōsaka Station. The Kyot ...

) **

Sanin 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 Ky ...

(

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 Railwa ...

) **

Nara Line The is a commuter rail line in the Osaka–Kobe–Kyoto metropolitan area, operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West). Its official termini are Kizu Station in Kizugawa and Kyōto Station in Kyoto, within Kyoto Prefecture; howe ...

* ** ** * ** In addition to the lines above, the following lines, among others, have through services to Kyoto Station: * JR West **

Kosei Line The is a commuter rail line in Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Metropolitan Area, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). The line was completed in 1974 by the former Japanese National Railways (JNR) to provide faster access from the Kansai region t ...

Kusatsu Line The is a railway line in western Japan operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It connects Tsuge on the Kansai Main Line with Kusatsu on the Biwako Line (Tōkaidō Main Line). History The Kansai Railway Co. opened the entire line ...

JR West/JR Central

Layout

The station has a side platform and four island platforms serving eight tracks for the Tokaido Line (Biwako Line, JR Kyoto Line) and Kosei Line at ground level, three dead-end platforms serving four tracks for the Sanin Line (Sagano Line) to the west of platform 0 at ground level, and two dead-end platforms serving 3 tracks to the south of platform 7 at ground level. Two island platforms serving four tracks for the Shinkansen are elevated, above the platforms for the Kintetsu Kyoto Line.

Limited express trains

;for the

Hokuriku Line The Hokuriku Main Line ( ja, 北陸本線, ) is a 176.6 kilometer railway line owned by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) connecting the Maibara Station in Maibara, Shiga, with the Naoetsu Station in Joetsu, Niigata. The section betw ...

*limited express ''

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'': Osaka - , ;for the Tokaido Line, and the Takayama Line *limited express '' Hida'': Osaka - *limited express ''Biwako Express'': Osaka - Maibara ;for the Sanin region via the

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Chizu Line *limited express ''

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'': Kyoto - Tottori, Kurayoshi ;for the

Hanwa Line The is a commuter rail line in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Metropolitan Area, owned and operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). The 61.3 km (38.1 mi) line runs between Osaka and Wakayama, Japan and has a 1.7 km branchline in a southern Os ...

Kansai Airport Line The is a railway line between Hineno Station and Kansai Airport Station in Japan, operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and owned by Kansai International Airport Co., Ltd. between Rinkū Town and Kansai Airport. It opened on 15 ...

and the

Kinokuni Line The is a railway line that parallels the coastline of the Kii Peninsula in Japan between Mie Prefecture and Wakayama Prefecture. The name takes the ''kanji'' characters from the names of the old provinces of and . The line is operated by Ce ...

*Kansai Airport limited express '' Haruka'': Maibara, Kyoto - Kansai Airport *limited express ''

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'': Kyoto, Shin-Osaka - Shirahama, Shingu ;for the

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, the

Maizuru Line The is a railway line in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It connects Ayabe and Higashi-Maizuru, the line beyond there being called the Obama Line connecting to Tsuruga. Stations *Local trains st ...

and the

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lines *limited express '' Kinosaki'': Kyoto - , , *limited express '' Hashidate'': Kyoto - , , Toyooka *limited express ''

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'': Kyoto -

Adjacent stations

Kintetsu

Layout

The station has three levels. Four dead-end platforms serving four tracks are located on the second floor. The 1st floor is a shopping street and the 3rd is the platforms for the Shinkansen (JR Central).

Adjacent stations

Kyoto City Subway

Layout

The station consists of one underground island platform serving two tracks.

History

Kyoto Station (building of the third) Kyoto,JAPAN

The governmental railway from reached Kyoto on September 5, 1876, but the station was under construction and a temporary facility called Ōmiya-dōri (Ōmiya Street) Temporary Station was used until the opening of the main station. The first Kyoto Station opened for service by decree of

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on February 5, 1877. In 1889, the railway became a part of the trunk line to

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( Tokaido Main Line). Subsequently, the station became the terminal of two private railways, Nara Railway (1895, present-day

) and Kyoto Railway (1897, present-day

), that connected the station with southern and northern regions of Kyoto Prefecture, respectively. The station was replaced by a newer,

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-inspired facility in 1914, which featured a broad square (the site of demolished first station) leading from the station to Shichijō Avenue. Before and during

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, the square was often used by imperial motorcades when

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traveled between Kyoto and Tokyo. The station was spacious and designed to handle a large number of people, but when a few thousand people gathered to bid farewell to naval recruits on January 8, 1934, 77 people were crushed to death. This station burned to the ground in 1950, and was replaced by a more utilitarian concrete facility in 1952. The current Kyoto Station opened in 1997, commemorating Kyoto's 1,200th anniversary. It is 70 meters high and 470 meters from east to west, with a total floor area of 238,000 square meters.

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, it exhibits many characteristics of

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, with a slightly irregular cubic façade of plate glass over a steel frame. The architect was Hiroshi Hara. Kyoto, one of the least modern cities in Japan by virtue of its many

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sites, was largely reluctant to accept such an ambitious structure in the mid-1990s: The station's completion began a wave of new high-rise developments in the city that culminated in the 20-story Kyocera Building. Aside from the main building on the north side of the station, the Hachijō-guchi building on the south side was built to house

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which started operation in 1964. The underground facilities of the station, including the shopping mall ''Porta'' beneath the station square, were constructed when the subway opened in 1981.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the JR West part of the station was used by an average of 200,426 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the second busiest JR West station after . The Kyoto City Subway station was used by an average of 123,360 passengers daily (in fiscal 2016).

Surrounding area

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* Shichijō Station (

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)

Karasuma Gate

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Hachijo Gate

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, Kanuma, and Utsunomiya Station * ''Seagull''; For

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, Isohara Station, and Iwaki Station * ''Yokappe''; For

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, Ishioka, and Mito Station * ''Flying Liner''; For

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* ''Fujiyama Liner''; For

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, Fujinomiya Station, Taiseki-ji, Fuji-Q Highland,

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* ''Kintaro''; For Shin-Fuji Station,

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, Shin-Matsuda Station, and

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* ''Crystal Liner''; For Hokuto, Nirasaki Station, Ryūō Station, and Kōfu Station * ''Chikumagawa Liner''; For Chikuma, Sakaki, Ueda Station, Tōmi, Sakudaira Station, and Karuizawa Station * ''West Liner''; For Gujō and Takayama Station * ''Karst''; For Ōtake,

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, Shūnan,

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, Hōfu Station, Yamaguchi, Mitō, and Hagi * ''Shimanto Blue Liner''; For Kubokawa Station, Tosa-Saga Station,

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* ''Holland''; For

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, and Nagasaki Shinchi Terminal * ''Sunrise'' / Aso☆Kuma; For

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* ''Ohisama''; For Ebino, Kobayashi,

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, and Miyazaki Station

= Hachijo-Dori Street south side (Kintetsu Bus and Nankai Bus)

= This bus stop is in front of Nippon Rent-A- Car Kyoto Station East Exit Office. * ''Silk Liner''; For

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, Ōta Station, Kiryū Station, Isesaki Station,

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, and Maebashi Station * ''Southern Cross''; For

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, Yotsukaidō Station,

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, Keisei Narita Station,

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* ''Dream Wakayama''; For

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* ''Let's Go''; For Hashimoto Station, Akishima Station,

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* ''Southern Cross''; For

, Fujisawa Station,

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* ''Southern Cross''; For

, Suzaka Station, Shinshu-Nakano Station, Iiyama Station, and Yudanaka Station * ''Southern Cross''; For

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, and Higashi-Sanjō Station * ''Honokuni; For Toyokawa Station and Toyohashi Station'' * For Yao Station and Kyūhōji Station * ''Shirahama Blue Sky''; For Inami, Haya Station,

Kii-Tanabe Station 270px, Kii-Tanabe Station on opening in 1932 is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). Lines Kii-Tanabe Station is served by the Kisei Main ...

, and Shirahama * ''SORIN''; For Nakatsu Station, Usa,

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= Hachijo-Dori Street south side (Osaka Bus)

= * ''Kyoto Tokkyu New Star''; For Nagata Station and Fuse Station * ''Tokyo Tokkyu New Star''; For

, and Ōji Station

References

External links

* - Kyoto Station Building Development
Station map by West Japan Railway

Station map by Central Japan Railway Company

Station map by City of Kyoto
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kyoto Station Railway stations in Kyoto Railway stations in Japan opened in 1877 Sanin Main Line Tōkaidō Main Line Tōkaidō Shinkansen

Lines

JR West/JR Central

Layout

Limited express trains

Adjacent stations

Kintetsu

Layout

Adjacent stations

Kyoto City Subway

Layout

History

Passenger statistics

Surrounding area

Karasuma Gate

Nishinotoin Gate

Hachijo Gate

= Hotel New Hankyu Kyoto bus stop

Hachijo Gate

= Hotel Keihan Kyoto bus stops

= Hachijo-Dori Street north side (Kintetsu Bus)

= Hachijo-Dori Street south side (Kintetsu Bus and Nankai Bus)

= Hachijo-Dori Street south side (Osaka Bus)

See also

References

External links