is a railway station in
Fushimi-ku, Kyoto
is one of the eleven Wards of Kyoto, wards in the Municipalities of Japan, city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Famous places in Fushimi include the Fushimi Inari Jinja (shrine), Shrine, with thousands of torii lining the paths up and down ...
, Japan. The station is managed by
Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau
is an agency of the city government of Kyoto, Japan that operates municipal subways and city buses within the city. Previously, it also operated trams and trolley buses.
Subway
The Kyoto Municipal Subway operates the following two lines:
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which controls the municipal
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 " ...
subway.
Lines
The station is a junction of the following two railway lines:
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The station is the southern terminal station on the former and an intermediate station of the latter. The two operators jointly provide through services between the two lines.
Layout
The station has two
island platform
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s and four tracks. This is the sole
subway station
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on the ground level in the
Kyoto Subway system while all other stations are located underground.
Platforms
File:TakedaStation-Platform.jpg, Platforms and tracks
Adjacent stations
History
The station was opened by the as on November 15, 1928, when the railway started the operation between and stations. On April 1, 1940, the station was renamed Takeda Station. The Nara Electric Railway was merged into the
Kintetsu Railway
, referred to as , is a Japanese passenger railway company, managing infrastructure and operating passenger train service. Its railway system is the largest in Japan, excluding Japan Railways Group. The railway network connects Osaka, Nara, Kyot ...
on October 1, 1963, so that the station belonged Kintetsu since then.
On June 11, 1988, when the extension of the Karasuma Line subway was completed
the station was moved to its current site where is about 350 meters north of the original location and was expanded to serve both Kintetsu and subway lines. At this time the station was handed from Kintetsu to the transportation bureau.
See also
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List of railway stations in Japan
The links below contain all of the 8579 railway stations in Japan.
External links
{{Portal bar, Japan, Trains
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Railway stations
Japan
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References
External links
Station Facilities and ServiceStation Map
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Railway stations in Japan opened in 1928
Railway stations in Kyoto Prefecture