Kyoto Kawaramachi

Weekday departures: 217/day · Sat & holiday departures: 211/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:16 / 23:50

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (14)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Hankyū Kyoto Main Line: Karasuma

Kyoto-kawaramachi Station opened on 17 June 1963 as Kawaramachi Station, the new eastern terminus of the Hankyu Kyoto Main Line after an underground extension from Karasuma. Automatic fare gates were installed in October 1973 and an early flap-style departure indicator followed in 1976. The downtown station underpasses Shijō-Kawaramachi crossing and connects underground to Kyoto-Karasuma below Shijō Street. Station numbering arrived in December 2013 (HK-86), and on 1 October 2019 the station was renamed Kyoto-kawaramachi to make its central Kyoto location clearer to overseas visitors. The defunct Hankyu department store above closed in 2010.

Underground walkways carry continuously numbered exits from Karasuma (HK-85, exits 13–26) into Kyoto-kawaramachi (exits 1–12), with exit 7 conspicuously absent and exit 13 currently sealed.